Since recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara in July 2024, France has translated words into concrete actions, most ...

Seven videos exploring the human and physical geography of the continent of Africa.

The Nile River drainage basin is the largest of North Africa, draining runoff from the eastern Sahara, Ethiopian highlands and equatorial East Africa into the Eastern Mediterranean. Today ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.