Egypt has around 125 traditional mining areas in the Nubian region of southern Egypt. Gold can be found in the Eastern Desert ...

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometre patch of barren desert between Egypt and Sudan, which remains an unusual geopolitical anomaly after decades of being unclaimed. With no laws, the deserted ...

The first harrowing accounts are trickling out about a series of punitive raids over the last week of October on villages in Sudan’s southern Gezira state, from survivors who had to trudge days ...

The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only person standing ...

The lack of ratification by Egypt and Sudan — desert nations that have raised concern over any attempts to diminish their shares of Nile water — means the accord will prove controversial.

The lack of ratification by Egypt and Sudan — desert nations that have raised concern over any attempts to diminish their shares of Nile water — means the accord will prove controversial.