Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

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Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. The north of Africa ...

Originating in the Sahara Desert, these warm, moist gusts sweep across the Mediterranean, bringing hot, dry weather to North Africa and Southern Europe, sometimes reaching hurricane speeds.

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.