The Latest Breaking News from Africa

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his peers probably felt after watching the extraordinary documentary Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales.

South Africa’s key opposition party believes it is the government-in-waiting ahead of the 2024 vote. But analysts doubt.

Predicted 116m tonnes of waste annually by 2060 is six times higher than in 2019, driven by demand in sub-Saharan Africa

A new study finds that endangered cheetahs are more likely to hunt at dawn and dusk on hot days, which increases their odds of conflict with other nocturnal predators

Many analysts blame state capture – the corruption of the management of public affairs – for the weakening of state capacity in South Africa. A judicial commission of inquiry into the problem laid it bare.

Ethiopia’s tone on access to a seaport is seen as either a distraction from domestic policy failures or start of a war.

Pre-qualification seen as significant step towards self-sufficiency in healthcare in continent where more than 70% of drugs are imported

The secretary-general of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria recently disclosed that only 38 women have been vice-chancellors of universities in Nigeria since 1960, out of more than 720 in total. The Conversation Africa asked Ekanem Braide, the Nigerian Academy of Science president and a former vice-chancellor, why this is…

The recent downpours underscore the region’s vulnerability to climate change, which is leading to more extreme weather.