A visiting senior Chinese diplomat said in London on Friday that the cooperation between China and African countries was not an exclusive relationship, but an "open and transparent" one.

A new study proved the initial supposition that the first humans lived in sub - Sahara Africa and moved from there across the globe.

A team of international disease experts has accused rich nations of committing a crime by luring African health professionals away from their home countries where their services are badly needed.

President Bush says the United States has no plans to build new military bases in Africa. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush is in Ghana where he is trying to head off concerns about the creation a new U.S. military command for Africa.

The researchers are disappointed. The testing of the first anti-AIDS vaginal gel failed.

US President George W Bush heads for his second trip to the African continent on Saturday to boost up economic, political and security interests in the country.

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

African Union leaders gathered in Ethiopia to discusses means of containing the violence in Kenya and Chad during a special meeting on the last day of their summit.

Twenty-one boxes filled with 7,000 unique seed samples from more than 36 African nations were shipped to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility being built on a remote island in the Arctic Circle as a repository of last resort for humanity’s agricultural heritage.

Africa's own fruits are a largely untapped resource that could combat malnutrition and boost environmental stability and rural development in Africa, says a new report from the National Research Council.

AS Nigerians continue to rue the dismal performance of the Super Eagles in the on-going Africa Cup of Nations, football authorities have begun to search for a new coach as the fate of German Coach, Berti Vogts, has conclusively been decided.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and businessman Idan Ofer have announced the establishment of a new, multimillion-dollar scholarship fund designed to educate students from Africa and to encourage them to return to their home countries after graduation. Ofer has pledged more than $5 million to establish the Advancing Africa Scholarship Fund.