The Latest Breaking News from Africa

April 6-13, 2023

The hit ITV series normally comes from Australia but for one year only there will be an extra show recorded in South Africa featuring some of the most popular and memorable contestants of the past

Breakthrough hailed as highly effective R21 vaccine is cleared by west African country but questions remain over funding

Stephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

Letter: Dr David Veevers highlights the important distinction between the dehumanisation of people from west Africa and the treatment of indentured labourers in the colonies

The maker of Cash App continues to double down on its investments in payment infrastructure outside the U.S.

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…