The Latest Breaking News from Africa

Analysis of over one million race records shows runners from East African countries as the fastest in 50km ultra marathons

Time magazine has dubbed 2024 a “super election year”. An astonishing 4 billion people are eligible to vote in countries across the world this year. Many are on the African continent, where presidential, parliamentary and general elections have already been held or are set for the latter half of the…

More than one billion dollars will be pledged towards ramping up vaccine production in Africa at a summit held in Paris later this week, France said on Monday.

Retired New York Giants great Osi Umenyiora has helped lead NFL Africa into Nigeria, where Bobby Okereke and Kayvon Thibodeaux are helping.

The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of tunnels…

We interviewed photographer Guadalupe Laiz who gets up close with animals to raise awareness of the urgent need for conservation

A flight-free adventure between the UK and North Africa offers the romance of slow travel alongside the opportunity to get to know some of Europe’s most famous artists, finds Diana Jarvis

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African…

Israel must end occupation and its G7 allies must ‘move from words to action. The time for talking is done,’ Oxfam says.

The Group of Seven rich democracies have failed to deliver significant new progress on climate during a summit in Italy, instead reiterating previous commitments, experts and activists said Friday.

South African lawmakers prepare for a historic presidential election with potential coalition support for Cyril Ramaphosa amid changing political dynamics.