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 ...

To develop the new map, Oelze and her team combined previously available strontium isotope data for parts of south and east Africa with data from Angola that the core team had published in 2023 ...

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 ...

A Pentagon report says China's navy has expanded its reach, with its ships visiting Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the South Pacific last year.

With performance, participation and people, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, and their mindset and value system ...

The continent's most electrified nations, concentrated largely in North Africa but including South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya, boast higher urbanization rates, attract more investment, and foster ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously thought. A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East ...

Africa's tectonic plates have collided to form large mountains and pulled apart to create vast basins; they now appear to be splitting the continent in two. "What might happen is that the waters ...

Africa's road network may one day link 18 countries, connecting millions of people across the vast continent. From Algiers, Tunis, and Cairo in the north, Addis Ababa and Nairobi in the east ...

Map: The Economist And the region can ... under a business-as-usual scenario, the Africa gap will not be closed. The continent’s countries need much greater levels of investment from Africans ...