northern Africa was a very pleasant place to live. However, around 5,500 years ago there was a sudden shift in climate in northern Africa leading to rapid acidification of the area. What was once ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean ... are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in some places. Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. For years, news outlets in Europe and North America have aimed to cover African places and people in terms ...

All four places have their own story to tell (Sousse ... from French colonial rule in its broad avenues, but every bit a North African city in a medina that rivals those in Morocco for swirl ...

They're some of the wildest, most remote places in North Africa. I first glimpsed these soaring, snowcapped summits nearly 40 years ago. In the 1980s, I was little more than a hippie kid hanging ...

In the 8th century, the Islamic Umayyad dynasty swept across North Africa, conquering all in its ... which wouldn’t be out of place in the southern Spanish cities of Granada, Cordoba or Morocco ...

None of this is to say that Roman North Africa was a peaceful place, as a series of uprisings and revolts by Berber tribesmen ...

To help you start planning, U.S. News ranked the best places to visit in Africa based on culture, affordability and the variety of things to do, as well as user votes and expert opinions.

confirms that the Arab and Imazighen populations of north Africa have different genetic origins. For the first time, this study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic ...