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Cape Town recorded its highest ever temperature as parts of South Africa was gripped by a weekend heatwave, according to an expert.

Like previous COVID waves, omicron has largely bypassed much of Africa — or has it?

The closure of Europe’s busiest airport grounds flights stretching from the Middle East and Africa to Europe and Asia.

Until tragedy struck in the form of a stadium crush killing eight people at the start of the knock-out round in Cameroon, the headlines generated by the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament were mostly positive.

Musa Barrow scored a second-half winner as the first-time finalists reached the last eight after a game that featured two late red cards

In 2021, coups d’état ousted four heads of state in sub-Saharan Africa. Army interventions in Chad, Mali, Guinea and Sudan halted a years-long decline in military takeovers. Some heralded this as the comeback of the army in African politics.

Young Londoners are being asked to take part in research that could reduce side-effects from Covid boosters and enable more vaccines to be given to poorer nations.

Saudi Arabian fertilizers maker SABIC Agri-Nutrients said on Monday it had signed a binding agreement to acquire a 49% stake in ETG Inputs Holdco LTD. ETG Inputs Holdco blends and distributes fertilizers, seeds and agro-chemicals directly to farmers and customers in several countries in Africa, according to information on its…

Few expected much from the continent’s smallest mainland country but Tom Saintfiet has instilled belief in Gambia’s Africa Cup of Nations campaign

In an effort to revitalise Gambia’s flagging tourism sector, which has been decimated during the Covid-19 pandemic, the West African country is looking closer to home, and even at its own, to bolster the once-vibrant industry.

South African space science had a big day on 13 January 2022. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology, based in Cape Town, launched its third satellite mission into space from the Cape Canaveral rocket launch site in Florida in the US.