The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Standard Chartered plans to sell its Jordanian business to Arab Jordan Investment Bank (AJIB), the two parties said on Sunday, as Standard Chartered presses ahead with plans to exit seven markets in Africa and the Middle East. The bank entered into an agreement with AJIB, subject to central bank approval,…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris begins her first full day in Africa on Monday as she meets with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that the United States will increase investment in Africa and help spur economic growth as she began a week long tour of the continent aimed at offering a counter to the influence of rival China.

Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Ghana to begin a weeklong trip to Africa

US Vice President Kamala Harris starts a three-country tour of Africa this weekend, visiting Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia to promote the White House's positive vision of the continent as the "future of the world".

Latest deaths come as Italian media report that a record 2,000 refugees had arrived in Lampedusa within 24 hours.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a ­thoroughly modern adventurer who has flown from South Africa to England, from England to Australia, and crossed America - all in in an open cockpit Boeing Stearman

Vice President Kamala Harris will try to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa during a weeklong trip that's the latest and higher profile outreach by the Biden administration as it acts to counter China’s growing influence

The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa’s 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth