Photograph by Simon Urwin Eighty percent of Algeria is desert, but contrary to popular belief only around 25% of that landmass is covered in sand — the rest mainly comprises vast volcanic ...

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group.

“Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, ...

It spans 11 countries - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ... Two major rivers also cross parts of the desert - the Niger and the Nile, the latter being the longest river in the world.

The mass deportations come amid rising tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours, all now led by military juntas ...

Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert ... change, Algeria serves as a transit point en route to Europe. Many cross vast ...