Last year, the African Union declared 2024 “The Year of Education.” This was a crucial call to action for African nations to accelerate their efforts towards ensuring quality education for all, as a ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors. More than the ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on Africa’s economy, BusinessDay has identified the ten poorest countries in Africa which have the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 2025.

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

South Africa’s antitrust watchdog penalized technology companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook for anti-competitive practices it said hurt local media ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Africa's health systems heavily depend on foreign aid, which has been declining since 2018 due to shifting donor priorities. This reliance leaves the continent ...

One such process is a court case before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – a judicial organ of the African Union (AU) established by African states “to ensure the protection of ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

For decades, African countries have been recipients of US aid. However, with the Trump administration freezing long-standing financial assistance, African nations must now seek alternative strategies.