The Latest Breaking News from Africa

More than 100 boys and young men were abused physically, sexually and psychologically in the UK and Africa by John Smyth over five decades.

The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old.

The dramatic loss of power by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had governed Botswana since independence in 1966, will go down in history as one of the biggest electoral upsets in Africa.

African nations are pushing for a dramatic increase in climate financing at the UN's Cop29 summit that opened in Azerbaijan on Monday – calling for $1.3 trillion (€1.22 trillion) annually to help the continent transition to renewable energy, adapt to climate impacts and address damage from climate-related disasters.

The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso

Loma Mountains National Park in Sierra Leone is a popular destination for hikers from all across the world

WHO provides update on Mpox outbreak in Africa, new variant in Congo, vaccination efforts ongoing.

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda

Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies