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Foreign minister Ronald Lamola takes over at critical time amid ICJ case against Israel and ongoing regional conflicts.

Learn about the environmental challenges posed by the growing demand for air conditioners in Nigeria and Africa, including improper handling of cooling gas...

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

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Kenyan towns on Tuesday in defiance of a police ban, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have rocked the East African nation.

The meeting is the 21st AGOA Forum, named after the African Growth and Opportunity Act, is unusually important because the act, the lynchpin of US economic relations with the continent for a quarter of a century, expires in 2025.