The Latest Breaking News from Africa

It's Red Nose Day and Comic Relief is airing tonight, but things will be different again this year after the charity was accused of creating 'poverty porn' and perpetuating 'tired and unhelpful stereotypes'

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google launched Equiano, its new private subsea cable that would connect Africa with Europe.  Equiano will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa, with branching units to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The new cable will help Togo…

Moisture from Storm Celia collided with the dust storm of Málaga, Spain, which resulted in the rusty-orange colored skies.

The charity works with vulnerable children and young people in southern African nations of Lesotho and Botswana.

The Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, was awarded this week to Burkina Faso-born architect Francis Diebedo Kere - the first African to win the honor in its more than 40-year history.

Three academic institutions in Africa have established units dedicated to the study of the United States. They are University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for the Study of the United States, the American Language Centre in Morocco , and most recently, the University of Pretoria’s African Centre for the Study…

Africa is home to the largest number of French speakers in the world – 120 million people in 24 francophone countries. As the world marks the United Nations French language day on 20 March, The Conversation’s West Africa regional editor, Adejuwon Soyinka, asked academic and author Kathleen Stein-Smith about the…

Ugandan environmental activists hit out at a mega oil project by TotalEnergies in East Africa. Four leading youth activists were received by the French National Assembly yesterday (Wednesday) to pressure the government to take a stance on the project. Vanessa Nakate, nicknamed the “African Greta Thunberg”, was among them.

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people