This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

The ancient city of Chinguetti is succumbing to a sea of sand – Sam Metz discovers how its residents are dealing with ...

One of the most significant shipwreck finds of recent times was made in an ostensibly unlikely place: a southwest African ...

The African Development Bank Group ( www.AfDB.org) and Eritrea have signed an agreement for $19.5 million in grant funding ...

Africa is home to some massive countries that have incredible and varied landscapes like rainforests and deserts. But one country stands out from the rest as it’s mostly covered by sand and is ...

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including 'The Road to Mecca,' and 'Boesman and Lena' died on Saturday.

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called ...

Botswana specialist Desert & Delta Safaris is strengthening its presence in Australia and New Zealand by visiting key cities.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

WINDHOEK - African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's \"founding father\" Sam ...