As Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,000 people, nears one year, assaults in the occupied West Bank ...

I’m standing on a muddy riverbank at a village in West Africa’s Republic of Congo. At my feet the Sangha River, one of the tributaries of the Congo, uncoils from the forest. The world’s ...

For the ethnobiologist and environmental anthropologist, nurturing relationships is step one in protecting a landscape.

Any approach to preventing the spread of Kush must transcend national borders and harness the collective strength of Mano River Basin countries, potentially involving the Economic Community of West ...

"Even worse river flooding is forecast for later in the year, potentially adding to the misery for children and families in the region," said UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these kingdoms belonged to the Nok people. They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River ...

Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to ...

Scientists have used environmental DNA analysis to identify 125 species of aquatic and terrestrial animals in the remote Corubal River in West Africa. The identified species include critically ...

Awe-inspiring "fish eagles" have been spotted scouring the edge of a Sussex river on the hunt for a filling meal. Ospreys which make their home in the UK in summer are preparing to migrate ...

The archaeology of southern Africa's west coast desert ... in the archaeological map. More work is also needed to understand ...

Kush is spreading across the Mano River Basin in Sierra Leone ... is manufactured in clandestine laboratories in China and shipped to west Africa. Formaldehyde is smuggled into Liberia by ...