Two of sailing's most fearsome speed machines are preparing for another high-stakes duel across the Atlantic, with the MOD70 trimarans Argo and Zoulou set to renew their rivalry in the 2026 RORC ...

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania.

Moktar Diallo left Mali in 2015, dreaming of reaching Europe by boat from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands.

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will ...

The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...

The strategic logic of the United States’ new National Security Strategy puts Africa’s mineral wealth and global connectivity ...

The next named storm is Francine. No tropical cyclone activity is expected, but experts were monitoring 3 tropical waves in Atlantic ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides ...

With a determined look on her weathered face, Safiatou Bah has made up her mind: she will leave her young children behind and ...

In 1857, The Atlantic’s founders wrote that their magazine would make a sincere and honest effort to represent and champion what they called “the American idea.” The Atlantic will visit all 50 states ...

According to Mauritanian officials, of the 141 migrants rescued by the country's coast guard, there were 88 Senegalese, 44 Gambians, 4 Guineans and 2 Malians. All of them were illegal migrants, ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows a trio of ancient "black mesas", which sit side-by-side in the Sahara desert. The dark structures have enabled a series of rare sand dunes to form around them ...