Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

With 300 cars, trucks, buggies, and bikes racing almost 5,000 miles, the Dakar Rally is a legendary event and a massive ...

Starting with a heavy-duty tubular chassis and carbon fiber body panels, Ford’s Dakar Rally vehicle was made to withstand ...

PAIX Data Centres, a leading data centre provider in Africa, has announced plans for the construction of a new ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region to face rising extr ...

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race ...

Senegal's moving ahead with plans to put more of its own identity and culture into key streets and has begun changing the name of landmarks named after french colonial figures. It is part of ...

Set up under tight security on a 25-hectare (250 000 square metre) sand plain in the Bisha region in the south-west of the country, the Dakar start bivouac was in full swing in these early days of ...

(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, Pool) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] DAKAR, Senegal (AP ... of permanent troops in the region. France currently has 600 troops in ...

Senegal's Sangomar offshore oil and gas field raised its output of crude to 16.9 million barrels in 2024, exceeding its initial target of 11.7 million, the West African country's energy ministry said ...

AL HENAKIYAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Nineteen-year-old Saood Variawa of South Africa became the youngest top-class driver to win a stage in the Dakar Rally on Tuesday. The previous record was 22, set ...

While the Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa (TGRSA) team found the 2024 Dakar Rally a tough one to contend with, it was the two rookies who showed that the future is bright. Guy Botterill and Saood ...