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Morocco is showing off its new solar power plant on the edge of the Sahara desert. Situated just outside the city of Ouarzazate to the south of the Atlas Mountains, the first phase of the Noor solar plant has been completed and was set to be opened by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI later on Thursday.

The Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles is a gruelling women-only race across 2500 kilometres of the Sahara Desert in Morocco. It does not seem a natural fit for British Columbians more accustomed to driving in the rain than in sand, but two local women are tackling the challenge right now. Jay Durant caught up with them...

Images captured on Sunday show a rare snowfall covering the red sand dunes of the Sahara Desert in Algeria.

A Quebec woman held hostage by Islamist extremists in West Africa for more than a year is recounting her harrowing experience in a new book. Sherbrooke-born Edith Blais, now 37, spoke to Global’s Dan Spector on her captivity for over a year in the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert in Mali.

The unusual weather phenomenon, which experts say is caused by a cloud of sand from the Sahara desert passing over the Mediterranean sea and across Romania, affected several areas in the southeast of the country. Other countries in Eastern Europe including Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine have also reported the phenomenon.

Global News Morning meets a local woman who hiked across the Sahara desert to raise money for Willow Place.

More than 13,000 migrants, including pregnant women and children, have been left in the Sahara Desert without any food or water, according to The Associated Press. The report states that Algeria is leaving people there to fend for themselves, with some braving a 15-kilometer walk from Point Zero in Algeria to Assamaka in Niger.

Sebastian Petronin is on a mission to find his frail mother, who is being held hostage by jihadists in the Malian desert. He hopes her captors will allow him to visit her just once, even if there is scant chance he will be able to take her back.

A New Brunswick woman is lacing up her sneakers in training to travel across the Saraha desert. It’s all in support of a housing project that is drawing national attention. Shelley Steeves reports.

Winnipeg realtor, Nicole Hacault, is set to walk 120 km through the Sahara Desert for domestic violence shelters, Global News’ Amber McGuckin reports.

Schwartz’s manager Frank Silva joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his experience running the world’s toughest marathon in the Sahara desert.