Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Africa is rapidly becoming the new heartland of global jihad, as franchises of ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda carve out strongholds across the continent, leaving thousands of people dead in their wake ...

Universal Kids Resort north of Dallas will have seven themed worlds, many of which are familiar to those who’ve visited the company’s other parks: Minion Land and DreamWorks Land at Universal Studios ...

Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north. It’s not immediately clear who’s to blame in the latest seizure in Kebbi state.

South Africa ends its G20 presidency this weekend with a two-day head of states summit focused on debt relief and global inequality – a meeting the United States says it will boycott. Pretoria says it ...

Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation, with almost 240 million residents — is experiencing urban growth that few countries ...

M23 rebels entrench their rule in east Congo even as Trump claims peace President Donald Trump says he has ended the long war in eastern Congo. But despite signing peace deals, Congo’s M23 rebels have ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

When it comes to her work, Ashley Cleveland has found a happy medium. Cleveland, now 41, spent much of her twenties hustling. Between jobs at radio stations, record labels and tech firms, among others ...