For more than a decade, a team of intrepid researchers have been exploring the river systems of southern Africa, one paddle ...

Over the next decade, African states will face mounting threats to their legitimacy and sovereignty, with some becoming ...

Vigilantes in South Africa have carried out violent xenophobic attacks targeting African and Asian foreign nationals in ...

While global population growth is projected to slow over the rest of the century, Africa stands out for its relatively young ...

"Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep" director Rakan Mayasi, who studied under Abbas Kiarostami and Béla Tarr, worked with ...

Conde Nast Traveller's ode to the people, places, food, fashion, crafts and creativity that shape this remarkable region ...

Eastern Africa's earliest livestock herders continued fishing, hunting and gathering for centuries after livestock were first ...

Editor’s note: The Intrepid Humanitarian is an occasional series of dispatches that aims to spotlight the forgotten crises of ...

Nature always finds a way, but those ways aren’t necessarily pretty. In fact, in regions with plenty of resource competition, ...

Four years ago, with the state budget seemingly providing a cornucopia of new revenues, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature extended state-paid health care to undocumented immigrants of all ages.

Prolonged Middle East war disrupts trade, energy flows Food, fuel costs risk triggering continent-wide living crisis Higher prices aid some exporters, strain importers TANGIER, Morocco, April 2 ...

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...