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A country that doesn’t exist on a map? It’s real, and we spent 50 hours there exploring its hidden wonders. Get ready for an ...
Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...
JOHANNESBURG - As South Africa prepares to assume the G20 presidency, there are growing calls for the country to use this platform to put African agriculture firmly on the global agenda.
Festus Adegbola, a UB PhD student who is using remote-sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology ...
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST Africa) has released Transforming Lives, Shaping Futures: AgTech in Ghana, a five-part docu-series now streaming on its social media channels.
Africa is the second-largest continent in the world, and its countries vary greatly in size. Explore the full list of African nations by land area along with their capitals, and discover which ...
After two decades, and many failed counterterrorism efforts, the Trump administration is considering shuttering U.S. Africa Command.
Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.
In a bruising Oval Office meeting, the visitors’ plan to keep President Trump from focusing on false accusations of white genocide backfired spectacularly.
A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.
Africa’s logistics and transportation sector stands on the brink of major transformation. From deepening geopolitical complexity to a renewed push for private-sector involvement, 2025 is rapidly ...
For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...