A tooth caries found in Taforalt Cave, Morocco.
Louise Humphrey
Findings from a new study challenge the traditional view that a heavy reliance on plant-based diets started only with the advent of agriculture.
Refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey. 2015.
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By externalising migration control the EU endangers lives, props up dictators, and empowers far-right parties.
The Sidi Bou Makhlouf mosque in El Kef.
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Tunisia has failed to capitalise on the heritage tourism potential of the ancient city and its natural surroundings.
Existing models have over-estimated the role of north Africa as the primary source of global dust emissions for nearly 30 years.
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New research reveals our understanding of dust’s role in the environment is far from settled.
A herd of the duckbill Minqaria bata wander along the shore of what is now Morocco.
Raul Martin
Oceanic dispersal of dinosaurs between Europe and Africa shows how low-probability, high-impact events drive evolution.
Rock carving of an elephant at the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Tadrart Rouge, in Algeria.
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The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.
Damage from September’s earthquake in Marrakech’s medina still visible in late October 2023.
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In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear about the importance of Marrakech’s old medina to Islamic heritage and what’s happening to its network of traditional artisans.
Stelladens.
Nicholas Longrich
Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile.
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Climate models suggest North Africa will get drier in future. But its caves tell a different story.
Moroccan women cook at a camp for earthquake victims in Amizmiz on Sept. 15, 2023.
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With Morocco, there’s stronger bureaucracy, and in Libya, authorities are weaker. But, as a scholar who has worked in both countries explains, the results are the same: not enough aid getting through.
Groundwater is vital to communities in northern Kenya during droughts.
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Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
Student activists have been galvanising forces in several popular uprisings.
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Sudan’s university students have played a key role in liberation struggles.
Tunisian journalists protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office in the capital Tunis on February 16, 2023, in defence of freedom of expression and against the persecution of journalists.
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Freedom of expression was the one remaining gain of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, but it is now severely threatened by a populist president.
Sudan army soldiers are fighting a rival paramilitary group.
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Violence in Sudan threatens to throw the troubled nation into chaos. A scholar of the region explains what is going on and what’s at stake.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood protest at a rally in 2013.
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The Muslim Brotherhood once held the reins of power in Egypt. Now it faces internal splits, government repression and dwindling support.
German troops marching through Tunis in 1943.
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People across much of North Africa were subject to racist laws and suffering at the hands of European powers during the Second World War.
Thalassotitan teeth.
Nicholas Longrich
Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, alongside the fossilised remains of its prey.
Smile if you love dinosaurs as much as Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus loved being a carnivore.
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The African continent is a rich repository for dinosaur fossils, including teeth and track marks.
Demonstrators gather in support of women’s rights and equal justice in Tunis in June 2022.
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Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
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500 million people live in 19 African countries deemed “water insecure”.