The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Muhsin Hendricks, the ‘world’s first gay imam’ wants to help LGBTQ+ Muslims in South Africa reconcile their sexuality with their faith

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary-General Haitham al-Ghais said on Tuesday that OPEC+ alliance took an unanimous decision to cut oil output as a pre-emptive measure to prevent a crisis. Speaking at the African Energy Week in South Africa, al-Ghais said the heads of delegations unanimously decided…

A survey of school students with African heritage shows many experience racism at school, much of it perpetrated by teachers or school staff.

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.

The African Union pledged in 2016 to “silence the guns” by the end of 2020, an ambitious agenda of ending armed conflicts on the continent. Just two months before that deadline, the deadliest war in years erupted in Ethiopia. On 3 November 2020, the armies of the Federal Government of…

Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Nasser Bourita said on Tuesday that the challenges facing Africa today are “unprecedented and unanticipated,” stressing that their pace is accelerating and their complexity is growing exponentially.

The difference in views between Ethiopia and Egypt on how to break the deadlock in talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has once again emerged. While Addis Ababa wants the African Union’s “unproductive” sponsorship of the negotiations, Egypt demands the support of the international community to resolve the…

Saudi Arabia and South Africa issued a statement after President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Riyadh, confirming the strength of bilateral relations and the importance of boosting joint action. Ramaphosa began Friday a visit to the Kingdom at the invitation of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. The…

Questions are swirling in Burkina Faso about what role Russia may have played in the West African nation's second coup this year

Temperatures across the UK are expected to rise in the coming days as a plume of heat from Africa sweeps across Europe and brings a warm end to the month, with high temperatures for Halloween

Forecasters had predicted a plume of warm air approaching the UK from northern Africa.