STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

Legend has it Bernard Shabangu's grandfather, Bhobho, once speared down a lion that was terrorising his community in Mpumalanga, a province in eastern South Africa. The story goes that the lion ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order to freeze all U.S. aid to South Africa and to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners who want to leave the country. According to the ...

Leaders from across Africa are gathering in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to discuss various regional issues at the African Union Summit. But before the summit could make a headway, it has already ...

a high-altitude landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa. Lesotho's international airport is named Moshoeshoe I, after the country's first king who died at the ripe old age of 84 in 1870.

While malaria still kills over 1 million people each year, most of those deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa—the United States ... during the Civil War alone. The map below depicts deaths from malaria ...