Analysis - Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning about a potential desert locust outbreak in Morocco, as swarms continue spreading across North Africa. The warning ...

Western media reports have revealed that representatives of the Azawad rebels (Malian Tuareg) and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an al-Qaeda affiliate, ...

HyveGeo believes it can turn the desert green and remove carbon from the atmosphere – using biochar and microscopic algae.

In response to the spread of desert locusts in certain neighboring countries, particularly in the Sahel region and ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

SharePresident Bola Tinubu has received a briefing from the President of Ghana, John Mahama, who undertook to tour the Sahelian States on a peace mission. Recall that the three states, comprising ...

Since mid-February 2025, competing terrorist factions branching off from the Boko Haram organization have engaged in a new wave of armed conflict, just two weeks after the failure of an ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama, yesterday said the Economic Community of West ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large multi-story building alongside a way station for those traveling between the Dead Sea ...