a flat-topped mountain overlooking South Africa’s capital city, Cape Town. These brief selections provide a useful, contrasting set of locations to help introduce this enormous continent to pupils.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday.

The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous ... and towering mountain ranges to savannahs make up the landscapes that are Africa. Norwegian Cruise Line just completed ...

African nations are “on our own” after a US policy shift away from climate financing, South Africa’s electricity minister said. The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris climate ...

South Africa also boasts the continent’s only world champion, Ferrari’s Jody Scheckter in 1979. Creating a race on the continent would not require excluding other venues as the F1 calendar is ...