Africa’s working-age population is growing faster than any other region, driven by progress in child survival over the last two decades. Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa invests less in education per capita ...

An LMG is short for light machine gun and Soweto is the largest township in South Africa. The same image circulated in July 2024, with similar claims of a “Somalian investor walking the streets ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

Floods killed about 1,500 people and displaced more than one million in West and Central Africa this year, according to UN aid agency OCHA. The rains also overwhelmed dams in Nigeria and Sudan.

HIV/AIDS is currently the eighth leading cause of death in Africa, accounting for almost five percent of all deaths in 2021. At that time, HIV/AIDS was not among the leading 20 causes of death in ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

Next time you’re looking at a map of Africa, see if you can locate any of these rivers we covered today. Exploring them, even if just virtually, provides a glimpse into the natural diversity and ...

The tool allows users to click a button and then drag a slider along to automatically view and snap a vector image into a different viewing perspective — something that would typically require ...

Thanks for joining us. These were the updates as South Africa beat Australia by eight wickets in the first semifinal of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 on Thursday, October 17: ...

The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-20 satellite snapped a staggering image of the northern lights rippling across the northern U.S. late on October 10, and ...

The $4.6 billion project is a central part of Ethiopia's plans to become a major exporter of energy in Africa ... see the outline of infrastructure on the green landscape. The first image shows ...

Valeria Pettorino, Euclid project scientist at ESA, said: 'This stunning image is the first piece of a map that in six years will reveal more than one third of the sky. 'This is just 1% of the map ...