The Latest Breaking News from Africa

The World Health Organization says it is launching a $1.5 billion campaign, hopefully including a new vaccine, to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030

All along West Africa’s coastline, women play a vital role in the fisheries sector as processors, traders and distributors.

The current climate crisis raises many questions. Some are forward-looking: how can this be fixed? Some look to the recent past: how did we get here? And some reach further back into history: are today’s extreme heat waves, catastrophic droughts and floods all due to climate change? Was climate and…

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South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled

In a recent study South Africa was identified as ranking first of 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database. Underlying this inequality is its very high rates of unemployment. Professor Dori Posel spoke to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about why trade is important…

New British prime minister Liz Truss has never said much in public about Africa.

Tunisia's Ons Jabeur became the first African woman in history to reach the semi-finals of the US Open on Tuesday as France's Caroline Garcia ended the hopes of American teenager Coco Gauff to advance to the last four. Jabeur, who also claimed a notable first in July as the first…

The recent election of Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, and first black vice-president, Francia Márquez, creates a new opening to revitalise ties with Africa.

The individual has been admitted to a unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hopsital

The continent is caught between Russia and the West.