Before petroleum was discovered in the late 1950s, the country was considered one of the poorest nations in the world.

However, the North African country’s production of olives, and its agriculture sector as a whole, is being weighed down by climate variations such as desertification. Desertification reportedly ...

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the ... 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare, scattered plots of fenced-off land covered ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region covers the enormous area extending from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia and from the ...

Tell people you are traveling to North Africa and chances are they assume ... faded imperial grandeur, and expanses of desert. When Tunisia features on Mediterranean travel itineraries it is ...