So it is good news that Africa’s sleeping giants seem to be waking up. In South Africa prudent policies helped bring inflation down to 3.2% in 2025, lower than at any point in the past 21 years, and ...

“Exceptionally heavy” rainfall that led to deadly flooding across southern Africa in recent weeks was made more intense by a combination of climate change and La Niña. This is according to a rapid ...

Senegal coach Pape Thiaw has been banned for five games and fined $100,000 and Senegalese and Moroccan players also received ...

MENA waste generation hits 155M tonnes; 67% poorly managed, World Bank says Region risks $7.2B in yearly environmental damage, plastic pollution rising Waste could double by 2050; $23B annual ...

The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five climbs offer under-the-radar alternatives with challenging trails and wild ...

In the last installment of our correspondent's journey along West Africa's rapidly expanding urban coast, we arrive in ...

This is the context for the Mercator map, the one that shows Greenland looking like a hulking prize to Donald Trump. The Mercator was first introduced in 1569 by a Flemish geographer, and by the 1700s ...

One footballer tells The Athletic about his dream that Western Sahara could one day feature as a nation on the game's global ...

Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

Is Greenland really as big as it seems? Find out more about its true size with five maps that might change your ...

Despite Chinese investment in African green energy and infrastructure projects, comprehensive diplomatic engagements, and joint innovation ventures, tensions between countries grew in certain corners ...