For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

The Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Nomalungelo Gina, will honour a cohort of young talents from across Africa in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 10 December, whose groundbreaking ...

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) on Saturday, December 6, hosted a commemorative symposium ...

We woke up this morning, Sunday December 7, 2025 to news of a military putsch in Benin. The putschists announced on national ...

The African Union High Representative for Silencing the Guns, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has called Africans to stand firmly in ...

The city’s new Caribbean Heritage Museum, with touchscreens playing neighborhood stories, walls displaying decades of ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has become the first African to top the ArtReview Power 100 ranking. This comes after he ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.