Agricultural productivity growth not only fed more people, but also accommodated a resource ... not all) African countries thus increasingly resembles a fata morgana, a mirage in the desert ...

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometer stretch of desert in Africa that no country claims ... Bir Tawil is a desolate stretch of land with no significant resources, water or permanent settlements.

By Adam Nossiter Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer known as “the man who beat the desert ... had no equal in the Sahel, the semidesert region stretching across Africa’s upper third.

Israel’s Ambassador and Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability, Gideon Behar, who is also the country’s Ambassador-designate to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mauritius, and the Seychelles, ...

From there, you can take in the surrounding Karoo, a semi-desert expanse that covers 153,000 square miles in South Africa’s Western Cape. The towering Swartberg mountains plunge into a landscape ...

The Bank has also successfully leveraged climate finance from international sources like the Green Climate to blend with the Bank’s own resources to support the Desert to Power initiative.

90-year-old Frans Hugo sets off every Thursday to deliver newspapers in the South African desert. Week in, week out, the elderly editor has made the 1,200-kilometer round trip across the semi-arid ...