Visitors can wander through maze-like streets, where shops, markets, and traditional houses sit alongside huge palaces.

Africa can be challenging to reach, but those who visit have the chance to experience the perfect blend of ancient and modern, wild and urban, and East and ... ranked the best places to visit ...

East Africa offered gold ... were rarely successful. "In that place there was a Moorish woman who had two small sons; I wanted to baptize them, thinking that they were not the sons of Moors.

It is widely regarded as East Africa's best diving destination, home to colourful coral gardens, diverse fish species and ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift ... 0.3 inches a year in some places. Volcanic and geologic ...