Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world’s ...

Government efficiency has come to Washington, D.C., and USAID needs a helping hand. Reassessing America’s role in the developing world is critical, and USAID’s shutdown is a key step in that ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. When people in the rich world imagine a migrant from the poor world, I ...

In this file photo Ethiopians are seen protesting against outside interventions in the conflict in the country's northern Tigray region, at a demonstration held at a stadium in the capital Addis ...

South Africa aiming to add 2,500 MW of nuclear capacity Trump has criticised South Africa and suspended aid Analysts say rift risks scuppering strategic nuclear pact CAPE TOWN, Feb 17 (Reuters ...

Since its inception in 2018, the Africa Business Forum has promoted dialogue between governments, investors, service providers, project promotors and other stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, ...

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, emphasized the potential of Africa and its young population and called for global reforms to right the injustices of the past, in remarks delivered to the ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to ...