Last year, the African Union declared 2024 “The Year of Education.” This was a crucial call to action for African nations to accelerate their efforts towards ensuring quality education for all, as a ...

The night attracted influential figures from the South African entertainment industry, all dressed to impress. The Metro FM Music Awards are back with a bang, ready to honour the top talent in the ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

For two decades, the American people have paid for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

But just scrapping USAID cannot be the final step. Leaving it at that would create a dangerous power vacuum on a continent like Africa, where U.S. foreign policy should put forth a viable ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...

Since its inception in 2018, the Africa Business Forum has promoted dialogue between governments, investors, service providers, project promotors and other stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, ...

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A South African imam who devoted his life to promoting gay rights and tolerance for L.G.B.T.Q. Muslims was shot and killed in the coastal city of Gqeberha on Saturday ...

South Africa aiming to add 2,500 MW of nuclear capacity Trump has criticised South Africa and suspended aid Analysts say rift risks scuppering strategic nuclear pact CAPE TOWN, Feb 17 (Reuters ...

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in the future. This tectonic activity, involving the Somali and Nubian Plates, ...