The Latest Breaking News from Africa

In July 2022 the World Health Organization declared the recent current monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency. Since the start of the year thousands of cases have been reported from over 80 countries. The current outbreak is unlike any previous ones. Infections are happening in non-endemic countries outside of Africa.…

An international food crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine war has spurred Canada to boost an over $6 billion annual foreign aid budget to help the most hard-hit countries in Africa and the Middle East, Canada's aid minister said on Thursday.

U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Rwanda, the last stop on his three-nation tour of Africa, where he has articulated Washington’s new strategy for engaging with sub-Saharan African nations as “equal partners.”

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way.

Since May, nearly 90 countries have reported more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox

When a Zimbabwean Twitter account posted images of wedding guests moonwalking to Kenny Rogers, many were surprised. But the ties between US country and Africa reach back to its commercial outset

Despite being only 65ft long and 35ft wide, Mike's garden is packed with extraordinary and exotic species native to South and Central America, Africa, and China

Twenty-three out of 300 movies have won the contest of the Red Sea Fund. The Red Sea International Film Festival has launched the fourth and last phase for the post-production projects aimed at supporting filmmakers in Saudi Arabia, the Arab region, and Africa, and help them turn their ideas and…

The surge in food and fuel prices has led to calls for national shutdowns across southern Africa. In Mozambique, trade unions issued a statement denouncing the rising cost of living, inadequate public services, generalised corruption, political patronage in the public sector and lack of compliance with labour protections.