Africa

A University of North Carolina student who was in South Africa for an internship was found dead after she went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in from two people...

Heavy snowfall caused major disruptions in ‘s KwaZulu-Natal province on Saturday. Motorists were forced to spend the night in their vehicles as one of the country’s main highways, the N3,...

Afghanistan’s cricketers have sealed a historic one-day international series win against South Africa with a 117-run victory in the second match in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on Friday. Rahmanullah Gurbaz...

The rising “has reached an epidemic level, yet it is receiving much of public silence,” Nigerian human rights lawyer Frank Tietie told DW. “You one would have expected the level of...

Ukraine’s population has been shrinking rapidly during Russia’s invasion, and the decline could soon pose an additional existential threat to the country, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.  Behind the...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Anita Odunyao Solarin, a 21-year-old Nigerian who has spent her entire life in South Africa, finds it safer not to disclose her West African roots. She...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handed out 37 death sentences in connection to the May coup attempt against President Felix Tshisekedi. Six of the defendants sentenced to death...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nathan Marx, a deckhand for a superyacht. It has been edited for length and clarity. From 2020 to the end of...

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