Genetic insights into the Fulani people not only illuminate their biological history but also enrich our understanding of ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

As development projects battle over which is the most ‘life-saving’ in order to secure the dregs of US aid funding, climate ...

Dar es Salaam. Mwananchi Communications Limited’s (MCL) digital news and content access platform, MwanaClick, has won the ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

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For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

At first glance, I thought Surfline and O’Neill were pulling a fast one. Based on the teasers dropped online, the season ...

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Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...