China has helped remake Niger's energy sector, but pay disparities and unequal employment roles have caused friction.

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

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

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

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 ...

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 ...