A UN migration official has accused Algeria of leaving hundreds of African migrants stranded in the desert

An Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert

The capital came under multiple attacks on Friday when five armed men opened fire on passersby before heading towards the embassy

Despite the refugee camp’s depleting funds, refugees would rather be hungry than live in terror

Few places in the world seem as otherworldly & inhospitable as the vast expanses of the Mauritanian Sahara, yet a holiday there is ideal for a family.

The "green belt" of trees surrounding Niger’s capital, which was created to stop the advance of the Sahara desert, is dying a slow death.

Masked bandits have kidnapped a group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians who were on an expedition in a remote corner of the Sahara Desert.

United States archaeologists have discovered the largest known burial ground of the Stone Age in the Sahara Desert, in Niger.

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy back plan for solar panels in the North African desert, writes Alok Jha.

Tentative preparations for an African "wall of trees" to slow down the southern spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting under way.

A tiny rectangle in the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe’s carbon emissions by harnessing the sun’s power.