Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South ...

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa ... it accounts for about 18 percent of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; the ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it ... and a GDP of $347.59billion (£ 266.70bn). But, on a map, the inaccurate display of the country does not ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the world. By Declan Walsh and Hannah Reyes Morales The Sani family ...

Zeinab Badawi has been asking what is behind this lack of knowledge and looking at the historical record for an African history series on BBC World News. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo is ...

Africa's current power development road map bodes well for clean-power supporters ... the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching ...

Investment in Africa’s health systems is key to inclusive and sustainable growth. Strong economic growth in recent years has helped reduce poverty to 43 percent of the population. Yet, as Africa’s ...

More interesting, however, was what it revealed about the dilemmas facing African governments as the world moves away from a multilateral order based on institutions, rules and norms towards a ...

Graham Bean and Mark Atkinson at Murrayfield. Nikki Haley responds to Trump’s announcement that she’s not welcome back in his ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest growing child population in the world. Yet, the current education system is at capacity, and the demand will increase with nearly 750 million children expected to be ...