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

Cities in the Northeast experienced record-breaking drought conditions in the second half of 2024 after a hot, dry summer in many areas. Wildfires broke out in several states that rarely see them.

As rents rise and displacement grows, Harlem residents led their own project to map the neighborhood’s rich history.

As President Donald Trump's whims reverberate across the world, one particular Chicago group — globe and mapmakers — rise to meet the challenge.

Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

In the 1930s, in segregated Sutherland town south of Richmond, Virginia, USA, there were two occupational options for black women. They could either work for penurious pay on local sharecropping ...

A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS. The regional bloc announced the ...