Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

In East Africa, sea access is a fight over power, survival, and control of the region’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Every few decades, finance finds a new pulse. In the 1980s, it was deregulation. In the 2000s, it was digitization. Today, its inclusion, and Africa is ...

As modern warfare shifts toward high-intensity conflict and contested supply lines, the ability to build and sustain combat ...