Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries.

It therefore risks losing out on the key strategic benefits that recognising Somaliland could bring – and countries such as ...

Airline passengers traveling to the U.S. who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

The virus circulated undetected for weeks. Heavy population movement in the area could make it spread farther.

South African businesses are increasingly looking beyond broad economic trends like semigration and gentrification to ...

For more than a decade, a team of intrepid researchers have been exploring the river systems of southern Africa, one paddle ...

Ksar Draa, located in the middle of the Sahara Desert, was built at least 700 years ago by an unknown people for an unknown ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a public health emergency. Health ...

Over the next decade, African states will face mounting threats to their legitimacy and sovereignty, with some becoming ...

When I first became co-director of an archaeological project at Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan in 2018, I was amazed by the ...