There are digitized maps about groundwater, water resources and desalination on hand - particularly from the desert countries of Africa, where water shortage and quality has been an issue.

From the United Nations, $15 million for livestock ... is locked like a parched pistachio in the nutcracker of white South Africa and Rhodesia (see map). Botswana’s strongest asset is its ...

Cape Verde is the largest of the African island nations. It is an archipelago located in the central Atlantic Ocean, approximately 350 miles (570 km) off the coast of West Africa. It has a ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...