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‘Moral threshold coming down,’ warns Mo Ibrahim, as his index of governance reveals widespread decline in 10 years

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.

Rapid urbanisation thought to be damaging adolescent health, as researchers say need for medication and diagnostic tests is urgent

How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 billion in education projects benefiting adolescent girls.

Made up of hundreds of discarded toys, household items, broken cables and bits of plastic, Cameroonian artist Malam’s giant head-shaped sculptures are deceptively playful. Invited to the Also Known as Africa contemporary art and design fair (AKAA) in Paris, the artist says his installations are in fact a harsh critique…

As a new documentary illuminates surfing’s African roots, Black people revive their sacred connection to the sport

The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.

Football is a game of passion, and passions can become particularly inflamed when the sport represents larger political struggles. In Nigeria in 1977, an Africa-wide football contest fuelled the ethnic rivalry between the Yoruba and the Igbo people to the point that the military had to intervene. The game was…