What did I hope to show them? The Sahara, I said. The desert. Look at any map of Africa and you see the Sahara spread across the entire north of the continent. We breathe in its dust, even at home ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

The meeting offered South Sudanese officials and businesses a platform to forge new trade partnerships, attract investment and share in Africa’s innovation-driven growth. Relations between Kiir ...

Africa isn’t just being outgunned by insurgents, it’s being outmanoeuvred by its own ...

“We’ve never had $30 billion allocated for energy access in Africa. We never even had $1 billion.” It’s hard to know exactly how many units currently exist. Manoj Sinha, CEO of Husk Power ...

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

Google Maps now shows parking difficulty, gas savings, and arrival time in the route overview window itself. It saves you the time and effort you'd otherwise spend digging through the app for ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud. The lawsuit ...

Long before comics started being referred to as graphic novels, the medium had a few titans in North America to express the art form’s potential for adults. Robert Crumb was certainly in that ...

Yodellers and monkeys, however, make bigger jumps far more abruptly, creating vocal breaks that sound like Tarzan's yell. When yodelling, a human might be able to jump an octave, which doubles the ...