The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Mpox, the high infectious disease that used to be called monkeypox, has been declared a “public health emergency of continental security” by Africa’s top health body over an outbreak that spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries.

South Africa has exceptionally high levels of inequality. As someone who studies issues of inequality and sustainability, I have argued before that South Africa’s income inequality is the highest of all countries that have data on this. This means that the gap between the rich and the poor is wider…

Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert…

President Bio advocates for Africa's increased representation in the UN Security Council, sparking global debate on Security Council reform and internation...

The Lawyers Council of Thailand is planning to file a lawsuit against private companies and state agencies which are responsible for the spread of blackchin tilapia, an invasive species from west Africa which is quickly taking over the country

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges reform, says the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world.

Clotilda is the last known ship to bring enslaved people to the United States from Africa

Much has been written about the struggles for liberation in southern Africa that took place between the 1960s and early 1990s in countries such as Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Israel Adesanya won't let go of what Dricus Du Plessis said about becoming the first UFC African champion.

Africa contributes only about 4% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The continent consumes the least energy for each person, compared with other regions of the world. With over 560 million people who don’t have access to electricity, Africa has the lowest rate of energy access in the world.

The use of drones in the Sahel, a region of Africa that has been plagued by violence driven by jihadist insurgency for much of the past decade, has become a real problem. In April, for example, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen, reportedly…