Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th cent ...

Every year, the Okavango River brings an infusion of crystal clear ... Having operated its own nature reserves within southern Africa for almost 130 years, De Beers is bringing conservation ...

Sahara Desert into a vast savannah, where both people and animals lived in great numbers. Today we still know very little ...

In many regions of Africa where oil is believed to be present, extensive seismic surveys have pinpointed dozens of hidden ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

TotalEnergies is firming up plans to kick-start a potential two-well wildcat campaign in South Africa’s undrilled deepwater ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s ...

DW's Eco Africa showcases innovative concepts and best practice projects from Africa and Europe and presents environment and climate change ideas that inspire others to get on board or start ...

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ever since European settlers began arriving nearly four centuries ago.

The lake's shoreline stretches over 2,000 miles and it is home to around 1,000 islands, some of which are inhabited.