The Latest Breaking News from Africa

In tonight's edition: South African double 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins her appeal at the European Court of Human Rights against World Athletics rules requiring her to artificially lower her testosterone levels. Also, the WHO says a new anti-malaria vaccine is a major breakthrough. Some 18 million doses have…

A few years ago, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – had lost salience because three of its members were in severe economic difficulty. Brazil, Russia and South Africa are primarily natural resource exporters and were badly affected by the global commodity price bust of…

Nigeria’s population is currently estimated at over 222 million, with the median age - the age at the midpoint of the population - 18.1 years. This poses challenges and opportunities. Akanni Akinyemi explains in this interview with The Conversation Africa that better data and greater focus on its huge young…

West African heads of states have chosen Nigeria's newly elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the Ecowas regional bloc for the next year, replacing Guinea-Bissau's leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo.

Uganda's Export Vision: $6 Billion Boost by 2028

President is heading to Africa one month after a three-country trip to Latin America.

A significant collection of traditional African art has had a home in Canada for almost a hundred years.

According to an oft-repeated factoid, half of all the human beings who have ever existed on Earth have been killed by malaria – equivalent to around 54.5 billion people.

Egypt are keen to have Mo Salah play at the Olympics in Paris next summer but it would mean the forward missing Liverpool games on top of his Africa Cup of Nations absence

Uganda's Plan to Boost Exports by $6 Billion: No More 'Blind Dates' in Trade

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement