Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has an ambitious vision for the continent’s most populous nation, but hurdles stand in his way.

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

The number of Roman Catholics is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else, according to the Vatican. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV would make a 10-day trip to Africa in April ...

A sweeping global effort to map the environmental roots of disease could reshape the future of health and medicine.

Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...

This video breaks down a rare 1866 map of Africa created just before the Scramble for the continent began. It reveals forgotten kingdoms, trade networks, and cultural boundaries that no longer exist ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one of the most significant geological processes on the planet: the progressive ...

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President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...