Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Some experts believe the currency swap will support bilateral investments, enhance market efficiency and financial stability, promote ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, political commitment, better regulations, and public-private financing are ...

African government, business and civil society leaders met in Davos. Image: World Economic Forum/Chris Heeney From its burgeoning youth population to its expanding influence on the global stage ...

DAR ES SALAAM, January 28, 2025 — Thirty African Heads of State and governments today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to ...

Jan. 27, 2025 The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to the biggest burst of spending on ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

For decades, DRC, a Central African nation of more than 100 million people, has grappled with bloody militia violence, including ethnic and resource-driven armed rebellion by M23 and dozens of ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia's desert, first discovered in 2005, has been widening by half an inch per year. That's ...