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Trans-Saharan travel has in recent years become increasingly famous among African youths, while it is less safe to westerners as assumed. As a...

At least seven Gambian migrants have died and three  seriously injured after their vehicle detonated a landmine in the Niger-Libya border, reports...

The International Organization for Migration estimates that up to 35,000 sub-Saharan clandestine migrants leave for North Africa and Europe every...

Freddy Kasseri, 23, travelled from Ghana to Niger intending to cross the desert into Libya. He did not make it. Libyan security forces return...

In August, floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge...

Sub-Saharan migrants continue attempting dangerous and illegal crossings into Libya and Algeria. They pick their way through Niger’s Air mountains,...

Of the 50 million seedlings planted every year in the 11 northern Nigeria states worst effected by desertification, 37.5 million wither and die...

Experts agree that an estimated 35 percent of land that was cultivatable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria’s northern states, but what they...

The old movies depicting people walking through the forest or desert and disappearing into pools of quicksand were a cause of many nightmares in...