One of many Arab world’s final holdouts to international vacationers is slowly opening up, as a brand new Algerian visa program provides extra outsiders the prospect to soak up the lunar landscapes and prehistoric artwork of its huge Sahara desert. Not like Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, Africa’s largest nation hasn’t prioritized tourism regardless of its…
A pioneering examine has shed new mild on North African humid durations which have occurred over the previous 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically inexperienced. The analysis, revealed in Nature Communications, confirmed periodic moist phases within the Sahara had been pushed by modifications in Earth’s orbit across the Solar and had…
The EU helps and funds operations in North Africa to dump migrants in the course of the desert, an investigation has claimed. Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania have been accused of utilizing EU funds to spherical up migrants and discard them within the Sahara, the place they face kidnap, torture, sexual violence and dying. The migrants…
A brand new report by The Washington Publish has revealed that Europe is complicit within the inhumane North African nations’ apply of pushing migrants to the desert. In response to the newspaper’s investigation, performed alongside Lighthouse Reviews and different worldwide media homes, the European Union, alongside some particular person European nations, finance these inhumane operations…
The Lighthouse Studies stated it interviewed greater than 50 black migrants – all of them from sub-Saharan Africa and West Africa – who had been expelled from the three nations. The report additionally cited two EU sources who acknowledged it was “inconceivable” to completely account for a way the funding from Brussels was getting used….
In Rabat, the capital of Morocco, Lamine, a younger Guinean, was arrested six occasions by the police in 2023 earlier than being ruthlessly despatched again to the opposite aspect of the nation. (Folks talked about on this investigation by a primary title solely requested anonymity.) In Mauritania, Bella and Idiatou, additionally Guinean, have been deserted…