The Latest Breaking News from Africa

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…

Emmanuel Macron’s announcement is significant, if expected, blow to France’s policy in Africa

Al Jazeera speaks to prominent tech executive Juliet Ehimuan on the evolution of emerging technologies in Africa.

Conservationists have confirmed the number of rhinos across Africa increased last year, hailing the first bit of "good news" in a decade for an animal heavily threatened by poaching.

Ending the AIDS pandemic – particularly in eastern and southern Africa – cannot be achieved unless more resources are channelled to meet the needs of key vulnerable populations.