With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

The UK has joined other European countries in endorsing Morocco's position in the Western Sahara conflict. Algeria and the independence-seeking Polisario are losing out.

A pro-independence Polisario Front supporter looks on during a military parade in the village of Tifariti, 19 May 2008 ...

Satellite images early Friday show Saharan dust over the Florida peninsula and the eastern Gulf. What that means for the ...

A large plume of Saharan dust will blanket the Gulf Coast after traveling across the Atlantic Friday, local meteorologists ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced the closure of its offices in Niger and the departure of its ...

Ghana turned a historic page on 5 June by withdrawing its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and ...

Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the ...

June tends to be a dusty month with particles traveling thousands of miles from Africa to the Americas. Much is talked about, ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

British foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday that Morocco's autonomy plan for the territory of Western Sahara was the ...