Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

Africa, often called the cradle of civilisation, is a continent rich in resources, culture, and human capital. Despite its vast wealth, ...

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

The modern Olympic Games is billed as the largest multi-sport event in the world, with a history dating back to 1896. Yet ...

Thomas Mariee's expedition down the Rokel River was an exercise in getting out of his comfort zone, one rapid and insect bite ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

Our economy is in a no-man’s land – yes, load shedding has abated, but any notable economic growth will be choked by a creaking, constrained grid. And ongoing electricity price fluctuations pose a ...

In the real sense of it, the emergence of Trump in his “second missionary journey” and the raft of executive orders he’s ...

As the first African country to lead the trillion-dollar G20 group, South Africa will spend 2025 pushing ... The forum unites 19 of the world's largest economies plus the European Union, who ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic ... may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war.