While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to assert his leadership was not the ...

Radio galaxies already feature mind-bending physics, with supermassive black holes accreting matter at the galactic core and sending out vast plasma jets that glow at radio frequencies. Those larger ...

South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege Africacategory· January 16, 2025 The South African government has given Taiwan a deadline of the end of March to relocate ...

Yet, for 600 million people in Africa, this right remains out of reach. They lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality of ...

DR. WERNER is best known in the field of African philology, for her knowledge of Bantu tongues is probably unique, and beyond doubt these acquirements have greatly facilitated her researches into ...

On the other hand, at the September 2024 Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), China upgraded its diplomatic relations with Chad to the strategic partnership level (having only established ...

But the impact is the same. “There is a clear collapse of French policy in Africa,” said Thierry Vircoulon, a researcher at the French Institute for International Relations’ Africa Center.

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its ...

As the first African country to lead the trillion-dollar G20 group, South Africa will spend 2025 pushing debt relief, climate change and international justice issues. This means there's a lot at ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, and China's President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, 19 November, 2024.

It is the first bioavailable strontium isotope map to show predicted strontium isotope ratios across all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Strontium is an element present in bedrock and soil that comes in ...