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Thousands of tiny bugs from Africa have been released at an Indonesian palm oil plantation in North Sumatra as the world’s ...

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Mariachi music, brightly colored tables and balloons filled the space of the Plaza del Sol, kicking off this year’s Carnaval ...

The rivalry between Morocco and Algeria extends to their air forces as well—with Morocco operating US equipment and Algeria maintaining a competing Russian-built fleet.

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (Egypt) and the University of Southern California (U.S.) describe ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, the first ape ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The pontiff’s visit to Africa highlights the growing importance of the African church within global Catholicism and honors the roots of Western Christianity and Leo’s own order.