Top of the pops is Arabic, spoken by some 150 million people across the continent. It’s the liturgical language of Islam and ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of ...

Known as “the blind couple from Mali," the duo of Amadou Bagayoko, who lost his vision at age 16, and Mariam Doumbia, who ...

According to the report, ongoing conflict and attacks on civilians are fuelling increased displacement across the region, ...

Daniel said he wants to raise "as much money as humanly possible" for the hospice who cared for his partner in her final days ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one of the deadliest — in DR Congo — over fatalities, public opposition and ...

Measles continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with more than 440 people infected. Oklahoma and Kansas have also reported clusters of cases. The outbreak is likely to persist for a year ...

Mali will partially lift a 2022 suspension on the issuance of mining permits on March 15, the mines ministry said in a statement on Friday. The military-led West African country, one of Africa’s ...