A well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by ...

B UNJU, ON THE outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, has many of the hallmarks of a new African suburb. The ...

A single camera trap survey pinned down 438 individual carnivores from six species, the first open dataset to map them all together.

For the most well-known rally raid event in motorsport, there really haven’t been that many major console or PC games based on the Dakar Rally over the last 40-odd years. There appear to be just five, ...

Gunfire and explosions at Niger’s main international airport highlight a shift in militant strategy in Africa’s Sahel region.

Archaeologists have identified hundreds of previously unknown ancient burial monuments in the Atbai Desert of northeastern Africa, revealing evidence of a large and sophisticated pastoral culture that ...

Rising Ebola cases in eastern Congo are intensifying concerns among health officials as the outbreak continues to spread across Africa.

A growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa has topped 1,000 suspected infections, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo emerging as the epicenter, World Health Organization officials say. With ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

Arab Finance: Agiba Petroleum Company, a joint operating venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Italy's Eni, has made a new discovery in the Western Desert, according to ...

Our planet is vast and full of mysteries, but over the centuries, humans have done our best to map, name, and categorize every inch of it. Learning about geography can be a great way to develop a ...

The desert blues may be a genre that is firmly rooted in one particular part of the world, but it doesn’t mean that its impact is any less essential. Put simply, it’s a sound that places the Saharan ...