A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

As of 2022, Nigeria accounted for around a quarter of the total languages spoken in Africa with 520. According to the map, the most popular languages spoken there are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.

The research team’s methods, and a few demonstrations of the map’s capabilities, are published in the journal Nature Communications. The map is available for public use through open access. It is the ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa.