A dangerous weather system brewing off the west coast of South Africa is expected to unleash powerful storms across large ...

When we resumed at Harvard Kennedy School last year, Africa became a topic of interest among many of our fellow students. As discussions unfolded during our classes and informal gatherings, it became ...

Lines are increasingly adding West Africa to their itineraries, opening up this lesser-known landscape to tourists at last ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...