Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

A powerful new documentary at France's Fipadoc festival reveals Western Sahara's fight for independence through the story of Mariem Hassan, whose music became the voice of her people's resistance ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first ...

The African Action Congress in the Federal Capital Territory has denounced the prosecution of human rights activist Omoyele Sowore by the Nigerian Police. The group's position was shared in a ...

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Eight former local government chairmen in Ondo State have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly misappropriating billions of naira.

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Travel specialists weigh in with the most underrated places to visit, along with can’t-miss activities in each locale and the ...

A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, ch ...

At least 46 soldiers of the Nigerien Defense and Security Forces, SDF, were said to have been killed in a coordinated attack ...