An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

Chinguetti is a historically important fortified city and medieval trading centre in northern Mauritania with a population of around 5,000.

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of manuscripts, is facing an existential threat from the encroaching desert.

It's not a one-stop solution to water shortages, but it could help supplement other harvesting and conservation methods.

As our car winds its way down Jordan’s mountain roads towards the Dead Sea, rather than continuing towards the luxury resorts ...

Deep within the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert lies an enormous, circular formation spanning nearly 50 kilometers—an ...

A rare, nearly complete skull unearthed in the Egyptian desert has led to the identification of a new species of apex predator, Bastetodon.

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat, and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet ...

The night-time ascent is the final highlight of this very Australian pilgrimage, the 230-kilometre Larapinta Trail from the desert city of Alice Springs through the West MacDonnell Range, a mountain ...

Stephanie Rafanelli sleeps out in Botswana’s Kalahari and Makgadikgadi salt flats to discover the secrets of a ...

How the Libyan conflict transformed human trafficking routes in West Africa, and why Europe’s response has so far failed.