China wants everything from Africa: its strategic location, its oil, its rare earth metals, and its fish, leaving African nations indebted to Beijing.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of existence. Around 900,000 years ago, the global population reached a precarious ...

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study.

Eccentric Yoruba discusses African merchants in ancient China: “In my previous post I mentioned that I had read somewhere that two slaves given as gifts to the a Chinese Emperor ...

When footage of Africans being discriminated against in China for their race amid the Covid-19 crisis emerged last month, it caused an awkward rupture in China-Africa relations.

China is enjoying its “best in history” ties with African nations, leader Xi Jinping said on Thursday, as he pledged $50 billion in financial support for the continent in addition to military aid.

But archeologists have spent decades studying the fossil remains of ancient populations of hominids that lived in China long before the African migrants arrived.

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In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

China pledges $50.7 bln to Africa at triennial summit Green energy, central bank swap lines part of deals Beijing makes no firm commitment on debt relief NAIROBI/BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) - China ...

They have not only underpinned China’s engagement with Africa in numerous fruitful cooperation projects, but also helped people get closer and closer through exchanges and deepening friendships.

THE first humans to leave Africa decamped to far east Asia, not Europe. A trove of ancient teeth found in a cave in China adds evidence to the idea that humans reached the region thousands of ...