Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54 ... cutting through mountains, rivers and even communities. Most of these artificial borders trace back to the 1884-1885 Berlin ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

But because a flat two-dimensional map can't portray size and relativity very well, we have a very distorted view of planet earth - and Australia, for example, is often perceived as a small island on ...

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two percent of official African boundaries were influenced by historical political ...

This issue of Africa Focus is dedicated to WWF initiatives from around the continent demonstrating varying ways of ... Africa is blessed with abundant water resources with large rivers like Congo, ...

Africa is slowly splitting in two, geologists have confirmed, a process that will eventually tear entire nations away from the continent and lead to the formation of a new ocean. According to a ...