An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

Congo’s security forces were fighting on Tuesday against Rwanda-backed rebels who advanced into a key eastern city in a major ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

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

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S.

Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...

You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have ...

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

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...