In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton Stanley was secretly mapping the Congo River and procuring trade treaties from local leaders, ...

Seventy years ago in April 1955, twenty-nine delegations representing countries in Africa and Asia convened in the city of ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

Without its own maritime doctrine, Africa risks gradually losing sovereignty over its seas ...

A new book unearths never-before-seen maps of Disneyland from the early 1950s. Readers who look closely can spot ideas that were ultimately discarded, including Recreation Land and Mother Goose.

Each polygon represents an individual roof, allowing analysts to estimate population, density and infrastructure needs without expensive field surveys. The 2024 2.5D temporal layer goes a step ...

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.

The Rwandan President was speaking during a panel discussion at the opening of the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan on Monday, May 12. Kagame said there are several efforts ongoing to end the fighting.

Trump repeated false claims of a "white genocide" in South Africa and then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he said supported his allegation. Ramaphosa attempted to correct the U.S. leader ...