When the colonial powers gathered in Berlin in 1884 ndash;1885 to carve Africa into bite-sized territories, they were not ...

This fall month is the worst for hurricanes and tropical storms in South Carolina. Here’s why it gets hit the hardest.

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Space42 and Microsoft to support the Map Africa Initiat ...

Now-submerged migration routes redraw map of how humans settled beyond Africa by Brendan M. Lynch, University of Kansas edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, borders, and struggles today.

US-Africa summit: Ambassadors to be evaluated on trade deals as Trump shifts focus from aid to investment-driven diplomacy.

The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST Africa) has released Transforming Lives, Shaping Futures: AgTech in Ghana, a five-part docu-series now streaming on its social media channels.

Africa’s maritime space is becoming a contested zone of influence, infrastructure, surveillance, and sovereignty. Foreign naval exercises are proliferating along our coasts. Deep-water ports are being ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

COLUMN: Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa.

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...