Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

Like many other African Americans, I can only trace my family lineage back to one or maybe two generations. There is not a ...

Interview - Emmanual Jal is a self-made man and a self-made artist. He emerged from a horrific childhood amid civil war in Sudan. He was trained to fight as a child soldier, barely survived escape and ...

Pure water is flowing for the first time in the remote village of Katchuat, South Sudan, after young people in eastern Idaho teamed up to help transform lives in one of the poorest nations on Earth. S ...

Their vision was a place where Black youths could learn about African culture and people could gather and celebrate ...

At least 35 people were killed and 46 injured in an attack on cattle camps in southeastern South Sudan last week, a community ...

Attack on South Sudan Cattle Camps Kills 35, Community Leader Says NAIROBI (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers raided cattle camps in a southeastern area of South Sudan last week, killing at least 35 ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

As this intracommunal clash intensified, a movement evolved that liberated tens of thousands of African slaves and ... obsessed with the idea that black people were actually slaves—and black ...