A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency.

When a Ghanaian chef and chocolate maker left her homeland at the age of five, she carried with her the memories of her ...

Humans live in a world abundant in salt, but this everyday seasoning is a luxury for wild herbivores, and it's far from clear ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...

Climate‑driven shifts due to volcanic activity, and the increase in grain trade helped bring the Black Death to Italian ports ...

December 7, 2025) - Libya stepped firmly back onto the regional energy stage today with the opening of the Libya Africa International Gas Forum (LAIGF 2025) at the Lancaster Hotel in Tripoli. The ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Turkish crypto exchange Paribu has purchased a majority stake in CoinMENA, a Sharia-compliant exchange licensed in both ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...