Under the new policy, all applicants from the affected countries must undergo a comprehensive vetting process, AFP reports. The United States government has suspended the processing of all immigration ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

West Africa's cattle herders are being stripped of their animals by extremist-linked armed groups as the deadly conflict in the Sahel region grows.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Kenya could once again be dragged back into a role it thought it had outgrown. It was once one of several African cities ...