Meanwhile, both Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are home to over 200 languages. In Cameroon, Bulu, Beti ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has officially launched the implementation of its Africa-BB-Maps project, a ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

Allahuddien Paleker, a proud product of Rylands, Cape Town, has achieved a remarkable milestone in his umpiring ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

A sophisticated new map of Africa, using a little-known element, helps reveal where rare animals exploited by the illegal ...

She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around the world, multiple disease ... newsweek.com Newsweek has created a map that lays bare ...