The Latest Breaking News from Africa

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are to blame, say analysts.

Police in Ghana have arrested protesters demonstrating against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country, once seen as a model economy in Africa.

The head of the junta in Guinea has defended the recent coups in Africa

Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing people to stay indoors. By afternoon the rain was clearly out of the ordinary.

In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings.

Africa’s most advanced economy is enduring frequent electricity cuts that ramp up cost of business, including poultry.

Climate change has negatively – and irreversibly, in some cases – affected ecosystems around the globe. Sadly, though, it is not the only phenomenon that’s altering our natural world.

Teo Boon Ching, a ‘middleman’ in a global criminal network, was arrested in Thailand after an undercover operation.

The structures date back half a million years. 

In recent weeks, Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and General Andrei Averyanov from the GRU military intelligence agency have made several trips to Africa. The two are increasingly seen as the main organisers of the post-Prigozhin era of Russian relationships with Africa following the Wagner Group chief’s demise in…

A physician from Nigeria and a scientist from Kenya propose ideas for the United Nations to consider — issues important in Africa and other regions that are often neglected by global bodies.