Was the Eye of the Sahara the real Atlantis, as many theorist claim? What does the evidence really reveal about this popular ...

For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a repackaging of ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

Researchers have analyzed dust deposited off the coast of west Africa over the last 240,000 years, and found that the Sahara, and North Africa in general, has swung between wet and dry climates every ...

A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

In Stockholm, Democracy Now! sat down with one of the winners of this year’s Right Livelihood Award: Sahrawi human rights leader Aminatou Haidar. For over three decades, Haidar has led a peaceful ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. There is extensive media attention given to migration from North Africa to Europe ...