A recent study has uncovered a long-forgotten landscape hidden beneath the vast expanse of Arabia’s Empty Quarter—one of the ...

Scientists have raised fresh concerns over the deteriorating state of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater lake, which is turning visibly green due to high chemical concentrations.A study by ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41 ...

Africa’s most decorated Olympian and Zimbabwe’s minister of sport since 2018 secured a majority of votes in the first round of the election process at the 144th IOC Session in Greece.

The Swan Lake ballet was first staged in Moscow, Russia, nearly 150 years ago, yet the love story remains a classic today. The Swan Lake ballet was first staged in Moscow, Russia, nearly 150 years ...

Yasuke is an African mercenary who becomes a samurai in service of Oda Nobunaga. That service leads him to the Iga province, home of shinobi-in-training Naoe, and tragedy brings the two together ...

Written by Remadji Hoinathy, Senior Researcher, Central Africa and Lake Chad Basin, ISS; and Raoul Sumo Tayo, Senior Researcher, ENACT Central Africa Organised Crime Observatory, ISS.

Six key breeding areas are to be safeguarded to help save the African penguin, following a landmark court order in South Africa. Last year scientists warned that the species was declining by ...

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