NAIROBI - At exactly 12.40 pm, the map of East African Community changed shape and a new map was unveiled at State House Nairobi. The new map was unveiled in the presence of seven heads of state ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

In eastern Africa, however, continuous runs of data are only available from the 1870s onwards. Fortunately, we can fill in gaps for years and areas where there are no measured rainfall data using ...

The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research. This poses ...

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.

Climate groups have for years pointed to the calamity in East Africa as evidence of the immense harm inflicted on poor regions by global warming from emissions of heat-trapping gases.