DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

These nations include countries in the Sahel-Sahara region—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria ... halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.” The site further explained ...

a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. The violence, which started in Mali in 2012 and has now extended to Burkina Faso and Niger, has ...

An attack by an extremist group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

It declared three days of national mourning Niger, along with its neighbors ... a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took power, analysts ...