Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

A strategic contest is emerging along Africa's coastline, centered on digital influence rather than military presence.

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

School violence is a global public health phenomenon. This is when learners and teachers are the victims of physical and psychological abuse, cyber threats and bullying, fights, gangsterism, and the ...

Africa is rapidly becoming the new heartland of global jihad, as franchises of ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda carve out strongholds across the continent, leaving thousands of people dead in their wake ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

After three days of talks in Addis Ababa, African leaders have agreed on Wednesday to a common climate roadmap ahead of COP30 in Brazil. Their bold vision presents Africa as a “continent of solutions” ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...