One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

FOR the first time in the history of Tanzanian diplomacy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation has ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.