Algeria's Western Mining Railway, Africa's first heavy-haul desert railway, has opened to traffic, improving Algeria's national railway network and promoting connectivity and economic development in ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Officials and experts from China and Africa on Sunday called for stronger scientific and technological cooperation to address desertification and land degradation, ...

Mention the Sahara Desert and many people think of sand dunes stretching from horizon to horizon. While enormous fields of sand cover some parts of the Sahara, that sand only covers about 20% of the ...