Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometer stretch of desert in Africa that no country claims ... Bir Tawil is a desolate stretch ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north ...

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.

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 ...

The bid attracted strong interest from the mining industry, with 20 companies, 19 of them are from the private sector, ...

Despite being Africa's largest country, nearly 90 percent of Algeria is left uninhabited due to the vast Sahara Desert ... country is rich in natural resources, and it boasts seven UNESCO World ...

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 ...