One of Africa’s most famous refugee camps could transform into a city. The Kakuma camp in a remote part of Kenya houses ...

Small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa can produce more food, support more jobs and be more profitable for the ...

A mine-sniffing rat has earned a Guinness World Records title for sniffing more than 100 landmines and items of unexploded ...

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday described the Alaafin of Oyo stool as a symbol of cultural pride, unity, and enduring ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of ...