Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Africa

The World Bank Is Still Failing the Poor

Poverty alleviation in the economically weakest parts of the world will require giving the poor a real seat at the table—which the World Bank has…

Foreign Policy

Ugandan activists brace for ratification of harsh anti-homosexuality bill

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently called on Africa to "save the world from homosexuality", suggesting he would sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by parliament last month. In Uganda and abroad, activists are mounting last-ditch efforts to try and stop the legislation.

Radio France Internationale

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

April 6-13, 2023

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

I'm A Celebrity's hardest EVER trial as show introduces horrifying new twist

The hit ITV series normally comes from Australia but for one year only there will be an extra show recorded in South Africa featuring some of the most popular and memorable contestants of the past

Daily Mirror

Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape evolution

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged.

The Conversation

Benin's Angélique Kidjo on winning the Polar Music Prize

She has been called Africa's premiere diva, one of the most inspiring women in the world and the most powerful celebrity in Africa. With more than 16 million albums sold, multi Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, global activist and educator Angélique Kidjo is now a laureate of the 2023 Polar Music…

France 24

Oxford malaria vaccine wins first approval from Ghana in ‘significant milestone’

600,000 die every year from the disease, mostly children in Africa

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Giants great Osi Umenyiora helps expand NFL Africa program

Retired New York Giants DE Osi Umenyiora has helped expand NFL Africa into Kenya with an NFL Flag football showcase.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ghana is first country to approve Oxford malaria vaccine

Breakthrough hailed as highly effective R21 vaccine is cleared by west African country but questions remain over funding

The Guardian - UK

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa review – high-risk comic debut

Stephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster

The Guardian - UK

What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

WEKU

'Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

France 24

Irish people sent to the Caribbean were not enslaved

Letter: Dr David Veevers highlights the important distinction between the dehumanisation of people from west Africa and the treatment of indentured labourers in the colonies

The Guardian - UK

Block partners with African crypto exchange Yellow Card

The maker of Cash App continues to double down on its investments in payment infrastructure outside the U.S.

Fortune

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Year Is off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Med

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…

The Independent UK

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil

RideApart

TVS Celebrates 3 Million HLX Series Bikes Sold Throughout The World

TVS Motor Company is celebrating three million bikes sold in its HLX line, popular in 56 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Reuters

Cameroon aims to boost export revenues, rejoin AGOA - minister

Cameroon is working to boost export revenues to fend off a potential debt crisis and has relaunched talks with the U.S. to rejoin Washington's flagship trade initiative with Africa, its economy minister said on Monday.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Italian coastguard in rescue of two fishing boats carrying 1,200 people

Operation comes as attempted crossings of Mediterranean from north Africa surge over weekend

USA Today Sports Media Group

Israel Adesanya: If Dricus Du Plessis keeps winning, ‘I will gladly drag his carcass across South Africa’

"I pray to god he keeps winning, I will gladly drag his carcass across South Africa."

The Guardian - UK

African film-makers reimagine folktales as dark fantasy dramas for Netflix

The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end drought

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Scrambles to Trace Source of Highly Classified Intel Leak

Classified documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defenses to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have US officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some experts saying it could be an American. Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents, which touch on the war…

The Conversation

Africa's energy sector will need to transform radically - these are the five biggest challenges

The future of Africa’s energy sector is getting increasing attention from policymakers and the private sector. As demand for energy rises, current energy systems must grow rapidly to meet it. This must be done in reliable, resilient and affordable ways – while “staying the course” of climate compatibility and ensuring…

ABC News

Care for Africa founder Diana Butler working on template for sustainable development

Launceston nurse and charity founder Diana Butler is busy taking the model for sustainable development she helped create in Tanzania to the world.

The New Daily

At least 20 dead as northern spring relaunches Europe’s migrant armadas

Fresh waves of African asylum seekers are attempting to reach Europe, with the perilous journey already claiming lives on the high seas

1 … 237 238 239 240

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Monetary Fund

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.