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

The Fulani are one of the largest groups of people in Africa, with a population of over 40 million. They live across a vast ...

Sudan’s vicious civil war is nearly two years old. Over 150,000 people are dead, and 12 million displaced, in the world’s ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most fascinating and extreme places on Earth! It’s the largest hot desert in the world, covering vast landscapes of sand, rock and even mountains. Despite its tough ...

Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

The 171-mile road will link the city of N'guigmi with Koulele and Django, and is part of a strategy to improve the road ...

This massive formation hidden in the desert is one of the largest natural arches in the world but remains vastly unknown due to its remote location.

The winners of the Travel Photographer Of The Year contest are a gorgeous visual journey through our changing planet and its ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina ...

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ... named after the vast southern fringe of the Sahara Desert region. The three severed military ties with longstanding ...

BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS ... named after the vast southern fringe of the Sahara Desert region. The three severed military ties with longstanding Western ...