Sahara

Destinations

See the hidden fortress cities in Niger’s Sahara desert

There have been no foreign tourists in this area since 2002.

06/06/2023

Experiences

Sahara desert: Why an adventure holiday in Algeria might be for you

Euronews Travel reporter Hannah Brown headed to Algeria for a desert marathon adventure holiday.

16/05/2023

Green News

Why has the sky in Spain turned orange?

Air quality is very low due to the dust cloud and authorities in Spain warned people to wear masks if they have to go outside.

16/03/2022

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A layer of orange sand from the Sahara covers part of Spain

Orange-tinted cars, dusty metro corridors and a hazy horizon in Madrid were seen after a thin layer of sand from the Sahara fell on a large part of Spain on the night of March 14th.

15/03/2022

Nature

Why is it snowing in the Sahara Desert?

Photos on social media show the desert dropping to temperatures of -2 C.

23/01/2022

Green News

‘Olympic Forest’ will add 355,000 trees to Africa’s Great Green Wall

The International Olympic Committee is planting trees in Mali and Senegal to help future games become 'climate positive'.

17/06/2021

France

Irony as Sahara dust returns radiation of French nuclear tests in '60s

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

01/03/2021

World News

Thick plume of Sahara dust causes air pollution spike in Europe

The cloud of fine sand blown northward from Algeria tinted skies red and mixed with fresh snowfall in the Alps and Pyrenees, leaving slopes looking orange.

09/02/2021

World

Polisario Front declares war on Morocco over Western Sahara region

A small part of Western Sahara is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Now their army broke a 29-year-old ceasefire, declaring war on Morocco.

17/11/2020

Spain

Canary Islands sandstorm from Sahara disrupts hundreds of flights

All airports on the Canary Islands were shut on Sunday after a vast sandstorm blew in from the Sahara Desert, shrouding the islands in dust

24/02/2020

Destinations

The woman risking her life in the desert to document climate change

Scottish adventurer Alice Morrison is on the verge of spending three months in the Sahara Desert.

25/11/2019

Morocco

Sahrawi activist: My struggle to keep conflict with Morocco peaceful

Sahrawi activist Aminatu Haidar, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize, told Euronews that human rights must be guaranteed to her community.

29/09/2019

Spain

Trump 'told Spain to build wall through Sahara' to stop migrants

Speaking at a lunch event in Madrid this week, Josep Borrell reportedly recounted a meeting where he said Trump shrugged off the scepticism of Spanish diplomats about building a wall through some 4,800 kilometres of desert.

20/09/2018