NOUAKCHOTT - On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global ...

Denim airbrushed in gradient sunset hues and playful suiting with rounded edges were creatively executed and further proof ...

The heyday of travel documentaries is fading fast. Are we resigned to a future of tick-list TV and celeb-driven ‘adventures’?

The Mali state’s fight against terrorism continues to be constrained by governance factors (regime rollover and illegitimacy) ...

Aid groups warn a ‘humanitarian emergency’ is unfolding along treacherous migration routes from sub-Saharan Africa towards ...

Tuareg jewelry, an integral part of Sahara's Tuareg people's cultural heritage, is known for its intricate designs and ...

The deadly conflict has claimed the lives of dozens of people across both countries as aerial attacks continue for a fifth ...

Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics ...

The Tuareg people are found in the desert region in the north and have no political homeland of their own but are dispersed across the Saharan regions of Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya.

“People still think that desert blues is a Tuareg in a dress with a guitar,” says Alhousseyni. “The West still doesn’t know much about our music, our world.

Moctar, a member of the nomadic Tuareg people who make up a small but significant portion of Niger’s population, has emerged as one of the world’s most exciting guitarists in recent years ...