Here’s how the Lee Enterprises Public Service Team did a first-of-its-kind analysis of states’ efforts to protect women who are subject to sex trafficking at illicit massage parlors. One tool ...

The UN's third ocean conference will be held in Nice this June, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, with discussions on overfishing, pollution, and blue economy financing. Atlantic African nations ...

UN Ocean Conference in Nice seen as last chance to reverse overfishing trends by 2030 Morocco emerges as key player amid collapsing stocks, regional inaction, and looming EU sanctions In June, the ...

Their offence? Being migrants from the region, they told reporters, regardless of whether they had legal residency papers. “We suffered there,” one woman told France’s TV5 Monde, a baby perched on her ...

Fish farms boomed globally in recent decades — more than half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture — but it’s not a ...

China’s efforts to buy influence in Africa through infrastructure and investment may not yield the returns Beijing hopes for, ...

A manned submersible reached the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean in August. The Titanic dive is being filmed by Atlantic Productions for the documentary special, "Mission Titanic", which will ...

The Sahara is also water: the Atlantic Ocean lapping its endless shores ... stretching from villages by the ocean to pastures and oases in what are now Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, and the Sahrawi ...

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A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelback cavalry play a vital role in the fight against jihadism today.