South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

No Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp. This is becoming more common in some African countries, where governments have sometimes shut down or restricted the internet and access to social media platforms.

Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa.

Dollar-denominated bonds later became an important source of finance for African governments in the 2010s, before the market abruptly ground to a halt in the 2020s. Now, however, Eurobonds are ...

This commentary is the first installment of a new column from the Africa Program called the Dizolele Brief, which connects the dots between seemingly disparate events and developments in Africa. A ...

Washington — President Biden will go to Africa next month for the first time as president, following through on a promise he made to visit the continent while in office. During the United ...

Africa may not always register on the average traveler's radar, but those who visit have the chance to experience the perfect blend of ancient and modern, wild and urban, and East and West.

Russia is offering governments in Africa a "regime survival package" in exchange for access to strategically important natural resources, a major new report has found. Internal Russian government ...

Video shows the moment a multi-storey building collapses in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

The ninth Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, which ended on 6 September, demonstrated both continuity and change in China’s partnerships with Africa. Less grandiose than the 2018 ...

Baobabs are arboreal icons that have punctuated Africa’s landscapes for around 12 million years. With crowns that can grow as large as three tennis courts, they are important for more than their ...

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Fed up with his call centre job, Loyiso Manga set his sights on becoming one of South Africa's first Black olive oil producers. He struggled to buy a ...