While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

Still, not all sub-Saharan countries are expected to have stronger economic growth due to rising populations — a longstanding challenge in Africa. The continent is also susceptible to ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the control of the major ...

Sub-Saharan Africa now accounts for ... societies must be our goal and we have a road map to get there. The 2030 agenda, and in Africa, the 2063 agenda need to be implemented.

It pointed out that momentum in Nigeria and South Africa, the two largest Sub-Saharan African economies ... will be uncomfortably high for many countries in the region. It concluded that financing ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed ... a journey thousands of people from sub-Saharan Africa endeavor to make every year.

Dr. Joseph Lubega calls sickle cell disease “probably the saddest story of a health problem that you could imagine.” He and his colleagues at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of ...