A look at some of the key teams, players and potential plot lines from the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations which begins on ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a statement on the research. “This framework better explains existing genetic, ...

From Adanna Nnamani, AbujaThe Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that Nigerian workers are currently grappling with the worst survival crisis in the country’s history, describing the situation ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in the county, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

By 2050, Africa will represent one in four people on Earth. The continent’s economic potential, alongside its global diaspora ...

The continent has a vast history spanning thousands of years, and one place has fended off invaders for the most part.

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...