The longest rivers in the world stretch over thousands of kilometres. From the Amazon to the Nile, they are crucial to human ...

Following a large protest meeting, the Anti-Convict Association is formed in Cape Town and almost 5 000 people sign a petition against establishing a penal colony in the Cape. (Ignoring the protests, ...

From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Davis was the first African American director of the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department’s chief language and training school just across the Potomac River in ...

In late 1983 Helen and her partner Tim Phelps traveled for two months up the Congo River and across Central Africa ... then called Zaire. It was and remains a mineral rich, deadly poor corrupt ...

In Nairobi, broadcast journalist Jeff Koinange remembered the passion and commitment Nick gave coverage of the Africa story. ...

Everyone had told us that the river was infested with man ... up on the flanks of the volcanoes of Central Africa, on the borders of Rwanda and Zaire. It’s the biggest of all the apes, the ...

There is a 10-foot waterfall as well as a lazy river that leads into the pool ... United States of America, Malaysia, U.S., South Africa, New Zealand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. Afghanistan, ...

BEIJING -- A Chinese scientist has used satellite remote-sensing technology to pinpoint the source of Africa's second-longest ...