The modern Olympic Games is billed as the largest multi-sport event in the world, with a history dating back to 1896. Yet ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

The impeached former Deputy President say his meeting with the veteran lawyer and former vice presidential contender is to ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

Sub-Saharan Africa now accounts for nearly 59 per cent of all terrorism-related deaths globally in spite of the continued ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the ...

African countries, the AfDB and WB have committed to bringing a stable source of energy to hundreds of millions of people, ...

Unlocking seismic data could aid the search for fresh groundwater in Africa, where water scarcity affects two-thirds of the ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...