While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...

A huge cloud of Saharan dust has swept across Europe in the last few days, already hitting Italy and continuing to spread north. On February 2, residents in southern Italy were affected by a cloud of ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

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 ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

While the most repressive dictatorships are usually associated with the likes of North Korea and China, the African continent also hosts nations where authoritarianism has emerged. Eritrea is a ...

Introduction The documented benefits of gender parity in leadership are emerging—women leaders have been shown to have a ...

People who fled M23 rebels around Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have found themselves with nowhere left ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Heated words were fired at members of the troubled Nebraska Commission on African American Affairs on Wednesday. North Omaha community leaders want to know what the commission ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...