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 ...

He argued that the Western legal system that favors imprisonment ... for a harsh brand of Sharia that dispenses a one-time capital punishment for offenders. “I want the harsh Sharia,” the ...

The region’s population ... western military forces. The current counterterrorism efforts of the military governments are widely believed to focus more on regime protection in the countries ...

Shopping malls are now so vast, so all-encompassing, so goddamned comfortable (especially on those midsummer days when Perth feels like South Sahara ... the highest of any capital in the country ...

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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s paramilitary, Janjaweed fighters have been accused of killing tens of thousands of people in Sudan’s ...

France’s cavalier seul approach had become untenable among its Western allies, making alignment with international ... Today, these two zones encompass 14 countries with a combined population of ...

President Trump’s idea of relocating Palestinians from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt is a bad idea (“Trump says Egypt, Jordan should take more Palestinian refugees,” Web, Jan. 26). Jordan has ...

The Egyptian Cobra is aggressive and highly venomous. Its bite can lead to paralysis or death without antivenom. The African Lion, powerful and fast, is one of the desert’s top predators. A lion ...

The drivers were the latest victims of insecurity in the Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara where militant groups such ... electrical equipment from Casablanca to Niamey, the capital of ...

There are certain places in the world that just take people’s breath away. This could be due to their size, beauty or uniqueness. And there is something intriguing about miles of sand dunes ...

Marco Rubio, the incoming US Secretary of State, reinforced America’s recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations ...