The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara is suggesting that dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario ...

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the ...

The Sahara Desert's episodic refilling of lakes, such as Sebkha el Melah in 2024, illustrates its greener past and helps ...

A picture you may have seen claims to show flooding in the Sahara Desert. Some people are saying this must be the work of ...

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region.

In a closed session of the UN Security Council last week, Western Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura proposed dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front in order to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will head to Morocco next week for a three-day state visit, the Moroccan royal palace said ...

In his annual report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recalled the ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

Heavy rain fell across the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert during September, producing large lakes of floodwater in ...