SAN DIEGO — The young men from Guinea had decided it was time to leave their impoverished homeland in West Africa. But instead of seeking a new life in Europe, where so many African migrants have ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Spain is kicking against the prevailing political mood among Western nations when it comes to migration and policies regarding the African continent. At a time when the US, the UK, France and Germany ...

Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa risk their lives every year fleeing poor economic conditions, persecution or conflict. Traveling to Europe, many, too, seek ...

Animal migrations have fascinated humans for millennia, from the ‘Great Migration’ of over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebra, and antelope in the Serengeti, to the massing of flamingos in the lakes of the ...

Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to leave their homes and migrate within their own ...

Historically, knowledge of baseline genetic data for African populations has been sparse. To remedy this, the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium, a collaborative effort ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Exposure to freezing temperatures near Morocco’s border with Algeria killed nine African migrants, a ...

Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi, has described the migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa as part ...

Franzisca Zanker received funding from the Heinrich Boell Foundation in 2023-2024 to co-author a study on Mobility Norms in Africa. This research is presented in this piece. Amanda Bisong receives ...