This map shows the chain of highlands and mountain ranges that University of Utah geologists Royhan and Nahid Gani dub "the Wall of Africa." Higher elevations are shown in reddish tones and lower ...

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the ...

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to stencil a wall. While I love peel and stick wallpaper, it can add up in cost and ...

For more than eight decades, Dr. Esther Mahlangu has been creating large-scale works that draw on artistic traditions of ...

It’s a sad tale that’s been repeated too many times before: a Black church becomes a target of racial violence. More than 200 ...

NPR's Africa correspondent takes us to one of the few remaining hospitals, near the Sudanese capital.

Security and Governance. Africa’s security and governance landscape is constantly in flux, from military coups to civil war to violent non-state actors. The CSIS Africa Program anticipates how these ...

The pact between Ethiopia and Somaliland has enraged Somalia, but could provide Ethiopia access to a naval base in the ...

Gabriele Steinhauser is The Wall Street Journal’s Africa bureau chief, based in Johannesburg, from where she manages a team of correspondents covering the continent and reports on life ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

As a response, the African Union set up an ambitious continent-wide megaproject in 2007 to address these social-ecological ...