Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Analysis - The Zambezi is Africa's fourth longest river, flowing through six countries: Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, where it becomes the largest river to flow into the ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Africa's Limpopo River, an S-shaped wonder, uniquely crosses the Tropic of Capricorn twice. This vital transboundary waterway ...

A new study suggests that the Zambezi River, Africa’s fourth-longest, is 11% longer than previously thought, with its most ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

Through this work, the Angolan Highlands have been identified as a critical “water tower” for southern Africa, a source ...

International Rivers has released a new Public Participation Resource Manual and accompanying Curriculum designed to equip African communities affected by large hydropower and other large-scale ...

A team from The Wilderness Project has conducted a survey of hippos along Zambia’s Kafue River, one of the last strongholds of the species in Southern Africa. The expedition faced regular close ...