A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

By Ashoka Mukpo This is the fourth story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One,Two and Three ...

A dangerous weather system brewing off the west coast of South Africa is expected to unleash powerful storms across large ...

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered, can travel vast distances for water, food or mates. Some landscapes they inhabit have extensive plains. Others, like the ...

Rain with a high of 62 °F (16.7 °C) and a 65% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 10 to 18 mph (16.1 to 29 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 52% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 12 to ...

Impala crossing the savannah near the Kafue River, Mumbwa GMA, Zambia. Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Elephants – African bush elephants in Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe .

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...