The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Policymakers and funders are being urged to invest in training a workforce to serve the industries of the future

The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the Mande people of west Africa – the virtuoso kora player, composer, and collaborator from Mali, Toumani Diabaté. He died on 19 July, just short of his 59th birthday, at the peak of his career.

A study shows that a twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing new HIV infections in women in Africa

Local residents were desperately searching for survivors on Wednesday after a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia killed more than 200 people, the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation.

Annual report says climate crisis, conflict and economic shocks leave the global food system ‘disastrously vulnerable’

Lesotho is a small, land-locked, mountainous country located in the middle of South Africa. Its Eastern Lesotho Highlands are often referred to as the region’s “water tower” because they receive some of the highest rainfall amounts in southern Africa, providing water to South Africa and electricity to Lesotho through the…

Farmers in Africa are blaming chemical fertilizers for increasingly acidic soils that have led to production decline

The family of a Portuguese-Belgian aid worker detained in the Central African Republic for allegedly being in touch with armed groups to plot a coup have maintaining his innocence and called for his release, even as the African government says it had evidence to support its accusations

Anti-African visa rules and slashed aid budgets have frayed ties with a continent Britain will increasingly need to rely on, says Alexis Akwagyiram, managing editor of Semafor Africa