West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a ...

Analysis - Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning about a potential desert locust outbreak in Morocco, as swarms continue spreading across North Africa. The warning ...

The Niger Republic has withdrawn an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as ...

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

The ANC’s selective outrage and ideological battles are harming South Africa’s poor, jeopardizing the economy.

In this fourth series of Tribe, Parry visits the Waimaha of the Colombian Amazon, the Marapu of Indonesia and and the Mucubal ...

Graham's biological grandfather was part of the Windrush generation who moved to the UK in the Sixties from Jamaica, but died before the actor was born. His mother Mary and biological father Stephen ...

New Ramadan favorites are reshaping Mauritanian culinary traditions — but not without raising concerns about nutrition and ...

The rugged and beautiful Greek island of Lemnos is home to a desert in the Gomati area, to the island's north.

Sea temperatures well above average in the Atlantic are likely to drive a “dynamic and potentially volatile” setting for ...