According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Their lineage remained isolated throughout most of its existence before the Sahara again became uninhabitable. At the end of ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is one of the largest cities in Africa, home to over 10 million people. The Greater Cairo ... crossing of major routes between North Africa and the Middle East.

The territories most suitable for European immigration, such as North Africa from Morocco eastward to Tunis and ... this strife and giving the country a homogenous government. The people of Cyrenaica, ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the ... In the interior of the continent most people continued to practice their own religions undisturbed until the 19th century.

A new report from Frontline AIDS finds that cases in the region have surged by 116 percent since 2010 amid war and little ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

UNHCR supports refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and returning refugees and IDPs by providing multisectoral assistance to those most in need. The Middle East and North Africa Civil Society ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...