And it’s truly black.” A hidden artery running through East Asia, the Kuro­shio has shaped life along its path for millennia.

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania.

Moktar Diallo left Mali in 2015, dreaming of reaching Europe by boat from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands.

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will ...

The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...

The strategic logic of the United States’ new National Security Strategy puts Africa’s mineral wealth and global connectivity ...

Humanity has built roads from Mesopotamia to the present day, some connecting cities, others spanning entire countries and continents. Following some of the world's longest highways from end to end ...

The next named storm is Francine. No tropical cyclone activity is expected, but experts were monitoring 3 tropical waves in ...

Natural gas is poised to reshape Africa’s economic future. Even as the global LNG market heads toward a period of oversupply, African demand is forecast to rise 60% by 2050, according to the African ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals to the general ...

With a determined look on her weathered face, Safiatou Bah has made up her mind: she will leave her young children behind and ...

According to Mauritanian officials, of the 141 migrants rescued by the country's coast guard, there were 88 Senegalese, 44 Gambians, 4 Guineans and 2 Malians. All of them were illegal migrants, ...