When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

The report explains how the Middle East and North Africa is turning rapidly to desalination, driven by severe water scarcity, ...

The article examines the UAE’s $1 billion AI investment across Africa as a turning point in South-South technological ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from the canopy, glowing in the mist. Birdsong pierces the still air. Jacques Habimana, a ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Satellite imagery captures the scale and speed of this urban boom, providing a rare window into how the continent’s urban landscape is evolving and what life looks like on the ground in rapidly ...

UCT leads Africa in global subject rankings and places in the top 3% in QS Sustainability Rankings 2026. The University of ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

South Africa ends its G20 presidency this weekend with a two-day head of states summit focused on debt relief and global inequality – a meeting the United States says it will boycott. Pretoria says it ...