Not standing in solidarity with Gaza because of the need to make African conflicts visible is the wrong approach.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Relatives and friends protest near a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein ...

Also in this edition: In South Africa, efforts are under way to pull up scores of illegal miners from a gold mine in Stilfontein. Thirty-six bodies have been lifted over two days. Last week ...

Who doesn't long for sunshine at this time of year, especially after the glacial temperatures of early January, with weeks of ...

Timi Oke is the co-founder and CEO of AgroEknor, a company exporting dried hibiscus flowers grown in Nigeria to global markets.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A girl walks amidst destruction in Mbouyougou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

The outgoing US leader has not prioritised Africa enough, some say, as Russia and China make inroads into the continent. Beijing’s detractors claim it lures in African countries with big loans ...

Access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is critical for powering Africa, transforming economies, and reaching people’s development aspirations. It is at the heart of our mission to ...