The Latest Breaking News from Africa

About 600 million Africans don't have electrical service in their homes, with electrification rates in West Africa as low as 8%.

Africa has the fewest roads and cars of any region, and yet the largest ratio of vehicle deaths, caused by the usual suspects – unsafe habits, speeding and drinking – but also poor infrastructure, scant rescuers and old cars.

Congolese authorities have started vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several other African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency

UN human rights advisor Chris Mburu turned his Kenyan hometown of Mitahato into something unexpected: a French-speaking village. After learning the language himself later in life, Mburu is determined to give local children a head start – opening doors to career and education opportunities across Africa and beyond. He shared…

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change

THE UK Government has been told it must give the people of its last colony in Africa the right to self determination as furious islanders tell of…

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute

Ghana's health service has announced the country's first case of mpox this year, without disclosing the specific variant of the highly contagious virus – which continues to spread across Africa.