Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

The UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future, convened 30 September - 2 October 2024, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity in ...

Africa is already being heavily affected by climate change. Between 1991 and 2023, the African continent warmed at a rate of 0.3°C per decade, a rate slightly faster than the global average.

This commentary is the first installment of a new column from the Africa Program called the Dizolele Brief, which connects the dots between seemingly disparate events and developments in Africa. A ...

Washington — President Biden will go to Africa next month for the first time as president, following through on a promise he made to visit the continent while in office. During the United ...

Canadian woman Adrienne Munju was arrested at Lagos airport with 35kg of synthetic cannabis. She claimed she trafficked the ...

Canna Coffee owner Greg Harris was caught in a viral video posted on TikTok Monday berating driver Gregorio Amundarain for allegedly making “money” in America and not knowing English while pic ...

NPR's Africa correspondent takes us to one of the few remaining hospitals, near the Sudanese capital.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. A mysterious animal painted on a cave ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

Canna Coffee, the Adams Morgan eatery recently banned by Uber Eats after its founder was captured on video yelling at a ...

A new education law in South Africa is dividing lawmakers and sparking angry emotions in a country with a complex racial and linguistic history. Last Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the ...