Ninety-five percent of Libya is desert, 20 percent is dunes, and not a single perennial river runs through it. The Libyan Sahara holds the world's heat record (136°F) and can chill the bones on a ...

The Sahara Desert covers more than 9 million square kilometres – it’s the world’s largest hot desert. Along with the River Nile, it defines the region known as North Africa…Some areas in ...