Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city’s main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...

Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted ...

Lake Charles has been chosen for the Louisiana premiere of the documentary “Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & ...

Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer was said to have discovered the River Niger in 1796 during his first expedition to Africa.

China’s relationship with Africa is set to deepen. At a summit in Beijing in early September, China’s president, Xi Jinping, ...

On September 9, jihadist militants launched a coordinated assault on several Christian villages in Burkina Faso, resulting in ...

We’re already seeing the impacts of weather extremes on key parts of our lives, from the food we eat to the roads we use and ...

China has supplanted the United States and the European Union as Africa’s main trading and investment partner.

For years the U.S. has indirectly contributed to an outbreak of terrorist violence in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. Ongoing conflicts in the Sahel region, spanning from Senegal to ...

West Africa faces more heavy rains this week after flooding in a region that’s seen at least 2.3 million people displaced by ...

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 traces the inland origins of ... direct connection between the expanding slave frontier and the powerful Lunda Empire.' Linda M. Heywood - ...