The Latest Breaking News from Africa

China has spent a trillion dollars to expand its influence across Asia, Africa and Latin America through its Belt and Road infrastructure program. Now, Beijing is working on an overhaul of the troubled initiative, according to people involved in policy-making.

The world’s farmers grow crops for food as well as other uses. Those other uses are threatening to crowd out our chance to feed the world’s hungry, writes Deepak K. Ray.

Beleaguered former South African President Jacob Zuma has said he is ready to make a surprise return to politics by standing for a top position at the ruling African National Congress’ elective conference in December

As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are in the sky doing something almost unimaginable: flying through the center of the storm. With each pass, the scientists aboard these planes take measurements that satellites can’t and send them to forecasters at the National Hurricane…

Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Ahmed Samir asserted that Cairo supports establishing an internationally recognized African accreditation system as an essential pillar for developing intra-trade within the continent. The system also seeks to increase the competitiveness of Africa's exports to various global markets, increase international trade rates, and meet…

As he prepares to unveil his fourth plinth sculpture, the cigar-smoking, boxing-glove-wearing artist talks about hat-banning colonialists, his journey from Africa to Oxford – and the joys of renouncing ambition

Ghana’s captain tells Al Jazeera about the team’s preparation and chances at the World Cup.

Virtually everyone involved agrees that the powerful U.N. Security Council needs to expand and include more voices

The world’s farmers grow crops for food as well as other uses. Those other uses threaten to crowd out our chance to feed the world’s hungry.

Soft-drink manufacturers are targeting Africa, but industry-led pledges to reduce the sale of sugary drinks subvert better government-led policy options.

The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years