Until gaining independence, the Sahell nations of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have been among the poorest countries in ...

The Ivory Coast's skyline has gained a dramatic new addition in the form of the massive La Tour F, or Tower F. It’s a ...

After years of drought, Lake Kariba’s rising waters are bringing relief to Zimbabwe and Zambia, boosting electricity, fishing ...

For weeks, Christian Congolese pilgrims had been walking. From the crowded trading centres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, from villages shadowed by militia violence and chronic displacement, ...

For decades, residents of Kalokol town on the shores of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, have lived with a ...

Eastern Africa's earliest livestock herders continued fishing, hunting and gathering for centuries after livestock were first ...

President Donald Trump’s explicit reference to "sources who kept us informed" points directly to human intelligence, or HUMINT — the hardest form of intelligence for a target to detect or counter, ...

The attack near the Lake Chad Basin is the largest U.S. operation in Nigeria since American troops deployed in February.

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K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that about 7,500 years ago, during a time of high rainfall, several of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alessandro Biancardi with the pending world-record Wels catfish. Although it's hard to say for sure, this is likely the biggest ...