While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

In the past 30 years, they’ve been helped in these studies by digital tools like geographic information systems (GIS). GIS is ...

Russia is expanding its influence in Africa as democracy wanes, with military strongmen carrying out coups and the United ...

Tinubu seeks reconciliation, proposes relocation of APC secretariat Buhari, Osinbajo, El-Rufai, Amaechi absent at NEC meeting I inherited N8.9bn debt - Ganduje The National Executive Committee (NEC) ...

France has given up most of its military footprint across west Africa with astonishing speed. By the end of the year, the only remaining French base in Africa will be in Djibouti. Driven by ...

Authorities had been tracking him for months, linking him to four separate rhino poaching cases reported between June and August 2023, said North West police ... is one of South Africa’s leading ...

Their role in technology and the global economy has made countries with rare earths a key focus in geopolitical discussions.

West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries ... like the reliance on subjective judgment to create reliable ...

Additionally, Google Maps will change the name of North America’s tallest peak ... cleaving it into two regions – Jammu and Kashmir in the west and Ladakh in the east. If you are in India ...

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms ... Musa gave away gold to people he met on his route. Image caption, This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller. Mansa Musa is wearing ...