The Latest Breaking News from Africa

The internet is an essential resource for daily life. We use it to stay informed, for school and increasingly for work. But major inequalities in terms of access to the web persist. Africa lags behind much of the rest of the world in terms of connectivity, deepening existing inequalities. The…

Chairman Macky Sall says new committee will work to build consensus on the matter, warns against divisions.

In many countries, COVID vaccination has been viewed as a race, with the finishing line being double vaccination of a high proportion of the population. Unfortunately, those countries who were initially successful face the challenge of a runner that has reached what they thought was the finishing line being told…

A South African court on Friday postponed a ruling on a lawsuit from descendants of South Africa's earliest inhabitants, the Khoi and San, to try to halt construction of Amazon's new Africa headquarters on what they say is sacred land.

Africa needs, and is ready for, nothing short of a new public health order, with systems better able to prepare for and respond to the next health threat. Having engaged in outbreak response, research, and capacity development in Africa for decades, it is all too clear to us how weak…

Naby Keita's wondergoal for Guinea could not prevent them from losing their final Africa Cup of Nations group game, but the Liverpool midfielder's nation have sneaked through to the last-16

Such technologies could disrupt monsoons in Africa and interfere with crop growth, scientists have warned.

Just about every schoolyard in England echoes with a semi-heated debate about which Premier League team is better. This month, with the African Cup of Nations underway in Cameroon, many students in London have plenty more to argue about. Nathan Williams, though, didn’t have to search long among the 24…

I carried out a little exercise on Google. I searched “Africa”, and then “African countries”. Top among the 3.4 billion results in the first search and 272 million in the second were stories about the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and bans on African countries. Then about wars and conflicts, and…