Presenter: Toto's Africa was written by band members David ... especially in the repeating “I bless the rains” with some improvisations. One of the distinctive features of this song is that ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.

And then that person realizing the narrator of Toto's song sees themselves as some kind of divine creature. How else to react to a chorus that ends with "I bless the rains down in Africa/I bless ...

As torrential rains across Central and West Africa have unleashed the most catastrophic floods in decades, residents of Maiduguri, the capital of the fragile Nigerian state of Borno — which has ...

In west and central Africa, recent heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease. New research suggests extreme weather events in ...

Y'all cool with loopin’?” After some experimentation, they settled on two repeated measures from Toto’s 1982 soft-rock hit “Africa” while Common’s percussionist Mark Colenburg laid ...

given it seems to rain almost every day in some parts of the British Isles. Yet, intriguingly, a list of the top 20 rainiest countries is actually dominated by those in Asia, Africa and South America.

“I wanted to put it all behind me,” the narrator of Small Rain freely concedes. “I wanted to be on the other side again of that gulf that separates the sick from the well—or what seems ...

Heavy rain in West Africa has caused flooding and kept cocoa farmers out of their fields, delaying harvest. Also, the heavy rain makes it harder to dry harvested beans, lowering their quality.

The WFP estimates that about 21 million children in southern Africa are now malnourished as crops have failed. Tens of millions in the region rely on small-scale agriculture that is irrigated by rain ...

Shiga, Japan — Rio Takeda of Japan won the Toto Japan Classic on Sunday in a six-hole playoff ... The tournament was reduced ...