Highlights: • World Bank urges Niger to boost irrigation as climate shocks threaten food security. • Just 2% of farmland is irrigated, yet it produces a third of Niger’s agricultural GDP. • Niger ...

“Algeria is one of the world’s hardest places to enter and among the least visited,” says Andrew Farrand, senior fellow for North Africa at ... with Libya and Niger. The origins of Algeria ...

The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a ...