Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

An African region that was just recently relying on food aid in order to survive today is thriving, with around half a million people feeding off its once drought-ridden land. The Great Green Wall ...

The forest sector contributes about $600 billion annually to global GDP and provides employment to over 50 million people. Africa and South America had the highest net annual loss of forests in ...

Forests act as the planet's lungs and are unique havens for biodiversity. But Africa lost nearly 4 million hectares of forest in the last decade, the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Africa has lost the largest amount of forest cover globally in the last decade - 3.9 ...