Some of the best images taken by Reuters photographers from across the continent.

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What comes to mind for many people upon picturing Africa is a vast land where safari animals roam freely and in tandem with ...

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Millions of African children are left behind, their right to education unfulfilled – it is about education systems failing to ensure that children acquire foundational skills. The reality is sobering.

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): I remember I was in school and I was having a debate with a very, very liberal friend of mine — very feminist, very liberal, probably wouldn't call me a friend anymore. But ...

From above, Benin City in southern Nigeria tells a striking story as forests and farmland give way to sprawling neighborhoods, laterite roads and industrial zones. In just four decades, the city has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...

A new study reveals a dizzying geological future – that of the slow but inexorable separation of the Somali and African plates, which could lead to the emergence of a sea channel in the Horn of Africa ...

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...