First the African anticyclone, then the polar cold, and finally the torrential rains. The week that has just begun will be ...

The heavy rain dramatically altered the desert’s scenery, turning barren stretches into shimmering bodies of water. Read more ...

Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren ...

Father-of-seven Dah Toubada Kadapia stood on a stack of homemade sandbags in his backyard in Chad's capital N'Djamena, ...

In an unprecedented turn of events, regions of the Sahara Desert have been inundated by severe rainstorms. This unusual ...

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Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding. Overflowing rivers ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some ...

Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer ...

Two days of intense rainfall last month exceeded yearly averages in several areas that typically see less than 250mm each ...