The Latest Breaking News from Africa

China has big ambitions in Africa. Between 2000 and 2020, the economic superpower loaned African governments US$159 billion to build railroads, highways, stadiums and bridges.

Photographing suffering is extremely contentious. But Reframing Neglect finds new ways to visualise neglected diseases in Africa – and their devastating impact on poor communities

As EU prepares to send money as part of €1bn deal, people trying to reach north African country detail border ‘pushbacks’

Building collapses have become a major menace in Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos is the business hub of the country and has its largest seaport and airport. With an estimated population of 15.4 million, it is the largest city in sub-Saharan Africa and the second largest in Africa after Cairo.

The French troops who are being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of defense in efforts led by the West, particularly the U.S. and France, to fight against jihadi violence in Africa’s hard-hit Sahel region

Togo’s foreign minister wasn’t having any of it

WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike has been named to the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States

Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during “bat season” agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-coloured fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of the world. The bats (Eidolon helvum) arrive at Kasanka every year around October. The numbers swell rapidly until…

As our planet warms, we’re experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and altered ecosystems. These environmental shifts directly affect people’s livelihoods by destroying crops and depleting water sources. They make once-inhabitable areas uninhabitable.

The vigilante group turned political party increases its xenophobic rhetoric amid rising unemployment in South Africa.

Autocracy Machinery, a trenching, turf and construction machinery maker, has secured $1.2M seed funding led by Venture Catalysts. Marquee investors, incl. Nikhil & Bharat Jaisinghani, Meghna Agarwal, Abhishek Rungta, Srikanth Iyengar & Abhishek Modi, have invested to expand domestic & global distribution, invest in R&D & build a state-of-the-art industrial…