Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

Meteorologists had predicted that a rare deluge could strike North Africa’s Sahara Desert, where many areas receive less than an inch of rain a year. Officials in Morocco said 18 people were killed in ...

Torrential downpours hit North Africa's normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend, causing flooding that killed more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria and destroyed homes and ...

The desert communities of Algeria make a home in the Sahara sand seas. Covering around 800,000 square miles, Algeria’s share of the Sahara takes up over 80% of the country — the volcanic peaks ...

It was primarily caused by orbital changes in the Earth’s axial tilt, which strengthened the African monsoon system. Moist air was drawn further north into the Sahara, which turned the desert into a ...

TUNIS, March 25 (KUNA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel ...