Hydropower plants across East and Southern Africa are battling water hyacinth infestations that reduce electricity output and ...

Saharan dust cloud crosses Atlantic, impacts air quality, supports ecosystems, tracked using advanced satellites.

Mount Graham Regional Medical Center stands as the healthcare hero of the region. This full-service hospital offers emergency care, surgical services, and specialty departments that rival big-city ...

The film’s stance on homosexuality is always crystal clear: it’s something natural, beautiful, and never portrayed as wrong or malignant. We’re meant to empathize with Manga and Sory’s love, and its ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects of ...

The dust causes hazy skies and colorful sunrises and sunsets, but can also lead to a trip to the hospital for some folks.

FROM AFRICA TO TAMPA BAY  Saharan dust can bring hazy skies, dry air, beautiful sunsets — and a surprising effect on ...

These trailblazers include Miriam Makeba, the first African artist to win a Grammy Award in 1966; Hugh Masekela, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968 with “Grazing in the Grass”; and CKay, ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced the closure of its offices in Niger and the departure of its ...

The best Afrikaans movies are entertaining and cut across various genres. Most of them have English subtitles and are on ...

What did the nations of Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, the Republic of Congo and Sudan have in common, ...