The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and ...

Across East Africa’s coastline, climate change and industrial fishing are threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

ZANZIBAR – East Africa is a promising new frontier and it will pay for Singapore to better understand the region, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Tanzania and East Africa can be valuable ...

The Strait of Hormuz dominates headlines, but the threat from Iranian senior adviser Ali Akbar Velayati to force the closure of Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

Not even heavy rain can keep shoppers away from Gikomba, a lively Kenyan market that stands as the largest open-air trading hub in East Africa. Sections of the site were waterlogged on the day the BBC ...

A graphic representation, illustrating the project location connecting from Kampala to Mukono, Jinja, Iganga, Namutumba, Butaleja, and Tororo districts, among others. East Africa is in the middle of a ...

IIF downgrades 2026 growth forecast, raises inflation outlook due to energy costs South Africa exposed to fuel supply risks, current account and fiscal deficits to widen Port and rail reforms, high ...

Billionaire Aliko Dangote’s plan to replicate his Nigerian mega-refinery in East Africa is gaining momentum — he just doesn’t know where to build it yet. Africa’s richest man last month personally ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has started a tour of East Africa as Paris seeks to rebuild its influence on the continent after a series of setbacks, especially in its former West African colonies.

Kenya's Great Rift Valley Shankar S. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent ...