In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

Imagine a parched African savannah, the earth cracked and dry, the grass brittle beneath sweltering sun—yet, amidst this ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for ...

Fizzing with the high of my virgin safari, I stop by the interactive Basotho Cultural Village on the Phuthaditjhaba side of ...

Then he put out a call to biologists and game wardens all around Africa: Send me your elephant scat. In this way, the groundwork was laid for his map. Sam Wasser estimates that 50,000 elephants ...

Thoko Chikondi Mount Mulanje, located at the southern end of Malawi in southern Africa, covers close to ... than 5,000 feet above the surrounding savanna, the massif was formed 130 million years ...

There are conflicting ideas about the development of rural Africa: On the one hand, governments and conservation ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

You can get in touch with John by emailing j.feng@newsweek.com Americans have been warned against travelling to certain parts of Africa ... Newsweek has created a map setting out the various ...

approximately 98.7 million children aged 6 to 59 months in sub-Saharan Africa and 95.1 million children in South Asia were affected by anemia. Based on a 20-kilometer grid, the maps produced in ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...