The continent's oldest independent country is Ethiopia, which apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, has ...

The number of active military personnel varies across Africa, with some countries maintaining a small force due to economic ...

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, emphasized the potential of Africa and its young population and called for global ...

Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh ...

Analysis - A clear plan that would move power over debt from colonial institutions to a more representative body is on the table.

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of ...

Kwame Nkrumah, the leading pan-Africanist and the founding leader of Ghana, addresses the United Nations in 1960 ... instability and conflict within African countries. My latest research paper ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Several African nations committed on Monday to ... Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Tanzania were among a dozen countries that committed to reform their electricity ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial ...

Ethiopia is often regarded as the oldest country ... nations in the world. Ethiopia is home to over 80 ethnic groups, each with its own traditions, languages, and cultural heritage. Unlike many ...

South Africa's G20 presidency was meant to be an opportunity to get rich, powerful nations to pay attention to poorer ...

African countries need jobs for rapidly growing ... Central to the government's calculus are stark demographic trends. The United Nations projects that Africa's working-age population will grow ...