Set in a dry and dusty landscape, Mongo is a town of 40,000 people, in Chad, a landlocked country in central Africa. Average life expectancy, at 51, is about 30 years lower than in the UK.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million ... of this argument is that all modern people are ultimately of African descent.

For every 1,000 people, there are 30 births and just seven deaths, according to demographic reports. Alongside its status as a rapidly expanding mega-city, Cairo is also one of Africa’s ...

One such mega-city can be found in Africa. The place in question is Lagos ... with a projected population of around 100 million people. According to Canada’s Ontario Tech University, the city ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Africa’s working age population is expected to grow by 450 million people, or close to 70 percent, by 2035. New analysis shows that without effective policy change, there will only be about 100 ...

An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people within hours of the onset ... 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms, the Africa office of the World Health Organization said Monday.