Africa has by far the youngest population among the continents, with about 40% of its population — nearly 600 million people — 15 or younger. It’s the primary target audience for militant groups, and ...

The team reports possible evidence of human settlement in the Foul Bay in the form of unusually large patches of coral, as ...

The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five in the 1960s and 3.3 in 1990, according to the ...

South Africa's history of elite pact-making, rooted in the 1910 Union, systematically excluded black South Africans from political life. In response, black elites, known as amazemtiti or ‘Black ...

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

Researchers in South Africa have rediscovered a lost lizard, uncovered new localities of species and found that some are in ...