Algeria is pinning its hopes on its vast desert to attract tourists as part of International Monetary Fund-recommended reforms to diversify its oil-reliant economy. The North African Opec member ...

TIMIMOUN, Algeria (Reuters) - Saharan sand dunes stretch to the horizon at this oasis town of red clay where visitors can ride camels with Tuareg nomads and sleep on dunes under the stars. Sign up ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

In the long struggle with Algerian rebellion, ... ALGERIA: Desert Encounter. 1 minute read. TIME. November 4, 1957 12:00 AM GMT-5.

Migrants and locals wait for trucks arriving from Algeria to unload their cargo at a giant desert trading post called “The Dune,” in the no-man’s land separating Niger and Algeria north of the ...

Algeria is struggling with desert encroachment, yet still able to plan its cities. No shanties were visible close by and no power failure. The country has more than enough megawatts of electricity ...

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, ...

ALGIERS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Armed men in all-terrain vehicles fired on Algerian army reconnaissance helicopters flying over the desert 700 km (437 miles) south of Algiers, the country's top ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- In a desert standoff deep in the Sahara, the Algerian army ringed a natural gas complex where Islamist militants hunkered down with dozens of hostages Wednesday night ...