When people think about continents, they usually imagine something permanent and unchanging. Borders shift, countries rise ...

Africa can now rely on the services of a satellite constellation tailored for the continent to provide reliable data over a wide range of essential human activities and for the protection of the ...

Kenya's Great Rift Valley Shankar S. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent ...

The vision of a "borderless Africa" is one of unity and shared prosperity for the continent. It is rooted in the ideals of the pan-Africanist movement. There are contradictions, however, between those ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

From 2000 to 2019, on average the continent gained 10 years of additional life expectancy and 9 years of healthy life ...

"African players are the pride of their nations, often carrying the weight of proving what the continent is capable of,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Check out these facts about Africa that really convey the continent. Pictured: A large family in Burundi. Africa and its vibrant ...

After the first round of games at the World Cup, an all too familiar script looked to be playing out for African football fans. Five games played, three losses, two draws and only Ghana putting the ...

Africa is on the move. At least 20m emigrants live outside the continent, a three-fold increase since 1990. That is higher than the number of Indian migrants outside India or Chinese migrants outside ...

African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda.