During the same week that President Donald Trump repeatedly denigrated Somali immigrants as “garbage,” he also welcomed a group of African leaders to Washington to champion a peace deal between the ...

The tailings dam - used to store toxic by-products from the copper mining process, including heavy metals like arsenic, ...

Trump hosted the leaders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in an attempt to cement a peace deal to end their ...

Guinea-Bissau has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020.

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

Some West African nations have introduced laws granting citizenship to members of the African diaspora as part of broader efforts toward reconciliation, recognition, and reconnection. These policies ...

Saharan Africa rose by 4.3% between 2023 and 2024, according to the World Bank’s latest annual report on debt in developing ...

As solar power makes electricity cheaper, that conundrum should ease somewhat. But it will not disappear. African utilities rarely cover their costs. In Kenya, a typical case, some 25% of juice is ...

Biometric-identity systems introduced by a number of African countries are blocking millions of citizens from accessing ...

The first Group of 20 summit in Africa broke new ground this weekend by putting the priorities of poor countries at the top ...

Pope Leo XIV has said that he would like to visit Algeria in 2026 as part of a voyage to Africa, which could be his next ...