The Latest Breaking News from Africa

As in the rest of North Africa, global warming is already showing its effects and severely affecting agriculture.

Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit

When African environment ministers met in Senegal in mid-September, they made one of the most important decisions in the history of waste management in Africa.

Momentum is growing for objects stolen during the colonial era that are now held in museums in Europe and North America to be returned to the places and communities that they were taken from. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to three experts about what happens…

France announces the end of Operation Barkhane. A decade of fighting in Africa's troubled Sahel region has seen over 2,000 jihadist fighters killed, but despite the French military intervention, violence continues. Also, protesters voice their opposition to Uganda's pipeline project that will see drilling take place within the country's largest…

Third of Congo basin’s tropical forests are under threat from fossil fuel investments, undermining climate action, report warns

Experts say world has ‘overreached’ in replacing Russian supply, which could kill 1.5C target

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the end of its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa after over a decade, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.

The organisation and Human Rights Watch petition in South Africa to take part in class action as the mining giant denies liability