The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past week in central India’s Kuno National Park

The Cannes Film Festival delivered its first honours on Thursday with a historic prize for Malaysia’s “Tiger Stripes” while African movies continued to enjoy the Cannes spotlight with the screening of “Mambar Pierrette”, an intimate portrait of a free-spirited seamstress and single mother in Cameroon. Its director, Rosine Mbakam, sat…

Seven people are dead and a further 17 are still missing after a hippopotamus capsized a boat in Malawi, Africa.

A senior South African government minister denied Wednesday there was extensive corruption within the ruling African Nations Congress party in relation to the country’s financially-crippled power utility

Six African leaders plan to travel to Russia and Ukraine "as soon as is possible" to help find a resolution to the war, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

South Africa’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador to a meeting over allegations he made that the country had provided arms and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine

The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international emergency

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denied on Thursday that his government had failed over crippling power cuts, saying already-announced interventions would reduce pressure on the grid.

Study of piracy hotspots in east Africa and South China Sea found that piracy increases when fish populations decline and vice versa