Yesterday, South African President Jacob Zuma made a surprise announcement that he had decided to withdraw the 800-odd South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops who have been participating ...

Analysis - During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were ...

Kruger National Park sits in northeastern South Africa next to the Mozambique and Zimbabwe borders. Within the park, visitors will find three main regions: Marula, Nkayeni and Nxanatseni. Each of ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch ...

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13. ...

Before the arrival of Columbus, the Americas were home to diverse and sophisticated civilizations that shaped the continent’s history and culture. This video provides a detailed map-based ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...