A massive circular structure in the Sahara Desert has puzzled scientists for decades. Spanning 25 miles, it is so large that ...

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Mauritania doesn’t make the news often. A vast desert country wedged between the Sahara and the Atlantic ... the development costs of GTA, with an eye on extracting better terms from BP and ...

Eye of the Sahara: Mauritania's giant rock dome that towers over the desert Upheaval Dome is unlikely to be the salt bubble itself covered in sandstone, because erosion probably stripped several ...

A 26 year old embarked on an incredible hitchhiking journey across the length of Africa, completing a staggering 8,000-mile ...

Noel and Max Lavelle are driving from Galmoy in Kilkenny to The Gambia, in West Africa in memory of Noel ... Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal, before ending in The Gambia ...

More than 40 Pakistanis are feared to have drowned in the capsizing of a boat off West Africa’s Atlantic ... had set off from Mauritania and capsized near Dakhla, a Moroccan-controlled port city in ...

Morocco is increasingly a focus of European alliance-building and investment, including in illegally occupied Western Sahara.

Thousands of people have gathered in Goma to hear from the leader of the M23 rebels, the group behind the conflict in eastern DR Congo. Corneille Nangaa called for a minute's silence for victims ...