Agadez, a historic town in Niger and UNESCO World Heritage Site, is facing severe flooding due to unprecedented rains. The ...

Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the ...

Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding. A man walks in the ...

Agadez, Niger: Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...

In Agadez -- known as the gateway to the desert -- forecasters say it's "regularly" raining, even in areas where normally "rain never falls". Former mayor Abdourahamane Tourawa called the ...

The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

Floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in the region, worsening existing humanitarian crises.

Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of ...