On a busy weekday, the coastal strip of Bountiya in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-biggest city, is eerily quiet. This was ...

In a refugee camp in Mauritania, displaced Malians describe fleeing both Islamist insurgents and their own military ...

Dozens of migrants are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying more than 200 people capsized off the coast of Gambia on ...

The Donald Trump administration is indefinitely suspending visa applications for travellers from 75 countries, including ...

Trump has expanded a controversial visa bond program, requiring visitors from African nations to post a $15,000 bond before ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

In other North African countries like Tunisia, the EU border policy is carried with to the letters. People, including ...

Up to 15 million people are stateless, not recognised as nationals by any country. They are some of the most invisible people ...

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of ...

The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders ...

Migrants crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canaries started using more distant - and potentially more deadly - departure ...

A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, ...