In many regions of Africa where oil is believed to be present, extensive seismic surveys have pinpointed dozens of hidden ...

It often appears un-labelled on world maps. Moreover ... history brought us to this hostile reality. When Africa was carved up in the late 1800s Western Sahara came under Spanish colonial control ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is launching a ‘daffodil diaries’ project to record the whereabouts of the popular spring ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” “We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order vowing to stop “aid and assistance” to South Africa over “human rights violations” including a land reform act ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.