Like any other continent, Africa has a large number of countries that, for one reason or another, have vanished from the globe. Here are several examples of African nations that no longer exist.

Valery Kyembo was leading an inspection of his community's protected forest reserve deep in the Democratic Republic of ...

Australia’s Sundance Resources said on Monday that an arbitration panel had dismissed its challenge to what the mining ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Algeria player Mohamed Amoura says he meant no disrespect after he appeared to mock the statuesque Congo supporter paying tribute to slain independence hero Patrice Lumumba at ...

“The spirit of Lumumba that is echoing through Morocco and the continent is a timely reminder that we must resist selling out ...

Ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM)'s Justine Nameere, the runner-up in the January 15 Masaka City Woman MP election, ...

Forest rangers say pressure is mounting. Corneille Makonga recalls how a powerful individual arrived with heavy machinery, ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Few sites in Africa yielded as large ...

UNHCR has begun preparations for the registration next week of thousands of internally displaced persons in the conflict ravaged Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The ...

His team were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations in agonising fashion on Tuesday, but the Democratic Republic of Congo's human statue Michel Kuka Mboladinga will be remembered as the ...

There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because ...