Shell has been granted environmental authorisation to drill up to five deep-water wells off South Africa’s west coast, the ...

Discover South Africa’s strangest hiking trails — from prehistoric cycad forests and star-studded coastlines to shipwreck beaches and ladders.

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to cross crocodile-infested rivers where predators lie in wait. But beyond ...

US relations with Africa face new headwinds this week as US President Donald Trump ’s ban on foreign visitors kicks in. Starting today, citizens from seven African nations will be banned from entering ...

The start of the Atlantic hurricane season is still over a week away. However, forecasters are tracking the season's first tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean.

The first tropical wave of 2025 formed off the coast of Africa.However, it is not expected to threaten Florida or develop any further.

The National Hurricane Center has started tracking a tropical wave west off of the African coast just weeks ahead of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It’s common to see tropical waves ahead ...

ISLE BE THERE I visited the Spanish island off the coast of Africa with laid-back beach resorts and 22C winters ...

Ivory Coast, a country of 31m people in the continent’s west, is a rare exception. Devastated by two civil wars, one from 2002 to 2007 and one in 2010-11, it has since undergone a remarkable ...

In the latest of a series of pirate hijackings off Somalia this year EUNAVFOR ATALANTA reported a suspected hijacking of Yemini dhow, or fishing vessel, on 16 March in the vicinity of Eyl ...

Beneath the waves off the coast of South Africa, a new species of pipehorse has been discovered, marking only the second-ever pipehorse species in the Cylix genus to exist anywhere in the world.