Moo Deng, whose name means “bouncy pork”, shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that ...

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...

The report details how Israel's policies and practices inflict collective punishment on the Palestinian people in an attempt ...

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

Some of the world’s borders are just . . . weird. You know this very well if you’re a traveler, a student of history, or ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

A new global risk map for 2025 identifies countries that have the potential to pose high-risk and extreme risk for travelers.

Standing below a stump of splintered limbs, I looked up at a grey sky once filled with flourishing boughs. Torn down by a heavy storm in May 2023, Freetown’s historic 400-year-old Cotton Tree is now ...

Interview - Thandiswa Mazwai has lived the modern history of African music. In the early '90s, when she was still a teenager, she pioneered the emerging kwaito sound in South Africa, first with a trio ...

Kyiv responds to report it could be ‘months away’ from developing nuclear weapons - Kyiv does not possess, develop or intend ...

One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone, the Loma ...

‘99-L’ became tropical depression #19 early Thu. & was upgraded to “Sara” early Thu. afternoon over the Western Caribbean.