África

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago, when early humans used them to butcher hippos for their meat

Many elephants are now born without the emblematic ivory and goat scurs are getting smaller

Half of Burkina Faso is under terrorist control and its military regime has ordered the withdrawal of French troops, following the lead of Mali where Wagner mercenaries are operating

The pontiff is on a six-day trip that will also take him to South Sudan, two of the most dangerous countries on the continent and among the few places where Catholicism remains robust

The Treasury and State departments announced the moves in coordinated statements that target dozens of the mercenaries’ affiliates

A new report has unified the WHO threat prevention model, after reviewing nearly 3,000 documents issued over the 23 years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic

‘It is possible for markets to become quite concerned about whether or not the US will pay its bills,’ the treasury secretary said

The economic benefits that major slave-trading nations, including the United States, reaped for hundreds of years on the backs of unpaid labor could amount to tens of trillions of dollars

Why is it that our species has come to dominate not only our warm ancestral lands but every part of the globe?

A son of Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled the African nation with an iron fist since 1979, and other top members of his security apparatus have been implicated in the kidnapping and torture of two Spanish citizens

Deteriorating habitats and illegal fishing are threatening the West African manatee, a species shrouded in mystery fueled by legends

A revised analysis of a horseman’s portrait found in southern Spain suggests he may have helped kill Publius Cornelius Scipio, the famous general who fought Hannibal in the Second Punic War

Piercing different body parts is an ancient practice in many cultures; in the West, the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s also incorporated it. Today, piercings are widely accepted; any political significance they once had has been watered down, and their decorative function now reigns supreme

Susan Hussey has stepped down from her palace duties after asking a Black charity leader where she was ‘really’ from

The emerging global statesman pulls off a well-attended and united summit

Ivorian activist Andy Costa has become one of the most photographed participants at the UN climate summit, always donning his neon green headgear

The American automobile brand made its debut on the battlefields during World War II after winning a fiercely competitive government contract

Authorities allowed a Long March-5B Y4 core stage to detach in a chaotic manner, triggering fears of dangerous falling debris hitting land

UNESCO warns that these ice masses will have disappeared entirely from emblematic places such as the Pyrenees, Kilimanjaro and the Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks

Climate change, deforestation and the extermination of predators are leading arboreal primates to spend more time on the ground

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, encounters between African and Spanish kingdoms were largely a relationship of equals

Each year thousands of Africans try to cross the Sahara to reach Europe En route, many die and many just get trapped, unable to go on and unable to get back home