Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the world. By Declan Walsh and Hannah Reyes Morales The Sani family ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Zeinab Badawi has been asking what is behind this lack of knowledge and looking at the historical record for an African history series on BBC World News ... stellae from the old kingdom can ...

These amazing maps of African countries are a great start. First, Let's Start With a Map of African Countries Before getting ...

Powerful and majestic, the king of the beasts has no natural predators. But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations, due to loss of living space and ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

(Just like us, African elephants mourn their dead.) Being in musth has its benefits, though, as females are more likely to mate with males that are both 35 years old and in musth. After mating ...

Speculation over the wellbeing and whereabouts of Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has become a hot topic across Africa this week. After attending the China-Africa summit in Beijing in early ...

Momentum behind the corridor connecting Africa’s so-called Copperbelt ... ports and mines across the developing world. That includes loans to refurbish the 100-year-old Benguela Railway in ...