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African Development Bank's push to end natural resource-backed loans due to exploitation concerns and promote sustainable financing for infrastructure proj...

Turkey, Iran and Morocco are vying for a greater economic and military role in Africa's Sahel after former colonial ruler France's forced withdrawal from the volatile region.

In just a week there have been two mass kidnappings in Nigeria. Hundreds of women and children have been kidnapped in recent days in Africa's most populous country.

"Health and Sovereignty" was the theme. "Medical sovereignty is one of the multifaceted parts of sovereignty and Russia wants to help African countries advance it," he said in French to the Burkina24 network at the conference, where some wore stickers of the Russian and Burkina Faso flags.

The number of female genital mutilation survivors now exceeds 230 million worldwide, with most living in Africa, according to Unicef. That represents an increase of 15 percent since 2016 despite progress against the practice in some countries.

From blues to industrial and rap, these extraordinary recordings showcase the community of descendants of the last slavers’ ship to the US

Valliammai Munuswamy Mudaliar, a South African Tamil teenager, embraced Gandhian philosophy and fought against apartheid in 1913.

Travelling 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) by air between two capitals on the same continent does not seem like a challenge.

Libya may sit on Africa's biggest oil reserves, but many families are struggling with rapidly rising consumer prices as the festive Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears.