“Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, ...

Visitors are flocking to witness the surreal sight of water covering vast stretches of desert. However ... two dozen lives lost across Morocco and Algeria, including tourists.

Rare protests erupted in a drought-hit desert city in June after authorities introduced water rationing. Algeria’s initiative thrusts it to the forefront of a growing trend in Africa ...

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 and a third time in 2018.

Algeria is the largest ... adapted can survive in the desert. These include dromedaries, which are one-humped camels able to survive up to 15 days without water. Aswan Dam, across the river ...