Social media has been flooded recently with a campaign under the slogan “No to the Settlement of Sub-Saharan Africans,” ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

French nuclear fuel giant Orano’s uranium mining subsidiary in northern Niger is on the verge of bankruptcy, raising alarms ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

Rainfall in this part of Morocco was always sparse, but still the Drâa was filled with snowmelt and rainwater that flowed more than 11,000 feet down from the peaks of the High Atlas Mountains.

Niger had about 6% of the world’s uranium resources in 2023, ranking among the top 10 sources of the fuel, according to the World Nuclear Association.

NIAMEY - Several hundred armed men, many on motorbikes, attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least 34 soldiers dead and 14 wounded, the Defence Ministry said. Read more ...

Niger, like other countries in West Africa's Sahel region, is battling Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State. Reuters Last Updated : 20 June 2025, 19:56 IST Follow Us : ...

On a May morning in Moulay Idriss – a small town at the base of Jebel (Mount) Zerhoune in Morocco's Rif Mountains – I rise at dawn with the crow of roosters to beat the summer heat. Wandering ...

DAKAR, Senegal, June 21, (AP): Armed men killed 34 soldiers and wounded 14 others in western Niger near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the defense ministry said. The attack was ...

Niger plans to nationalise a uranium mine operated by French nuclear firm Orano as it continues to pivot away from former colonial ruler, France. The company, which is 90 percent owned by the ...