The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter spent decades waging war against an ancient parasite

Key Republicans are pressuring South Africa to align its foreign policy with U.S. interests to maintain trade benefits under AGOA, risking job losses and e...

A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The study, the largest of its kind, recruited 7,500 men from eastern, southern and west Africa. The study is especially important because African men have a high risk of prostate cancer.

An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows

HIV remains a major global public health challenge.

Scientists are warning about the continued and heightened threat from toxic algae blooms in waterways

More than a year after a military coup, Gabonese citizens have held a referendum in which they approved a new draft constitution. The constitutional revisions targeted dynastic rule by introducing presidential term limits and banning family members of a sitting president from running for the office.

No wonder pop stars and others feel uneasy about the project. However well-intentioned, it now does more harm than good, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

Singer says his ‘understanding of the narrative’ around Do They Know It’s Christmas? has changed since 2014 appearance