What makes South Africa's apartheid era different to segregation and racial hatred that have occurred in other countries is the systematic way in which the National Party, which came into ... Read More

There's apparently now proof that Tutankhamun drank red wine... BBC News reports that a test (using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry) has been developed to detect acid left by compounds ... Read More

If you're in the market for traditional-medicine ingredients, be it a crocodile skull or chimpanzee hand, the place in West Africa to head is Lome, the capital city of Togo, ... Read More

One of the most hideous legacies of the civil war in Sierra Leone is the number of people who had limbs amputated by rebels. This photo feature on the BBC ... Read More

The fourth palaeontology department in Africa has opened at the University of Ndjamena in Chad, reports the BBC. This development follows the discovery of the seven-million-year-old Toumaï skull "shook up ... Read More

The first arrest warrants have been issued by the