Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

This photo made available by Los Angeles Zoo, shows two Cape vultures at their new exhibit in Los Angeles Zoo, Dec. 11, 2024.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Main entrance of Tatu city, a startup city that tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing, is seen in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.

The Cape Verdean islands may not necessarily be rich in the monetary sense - but they are rich in musical sounds and joie de ...

Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.