A priest in the Awka Diocese in Nigeria has encouraged journalists to expose Christian persecution, which is at its highest ...

Sudan's war is causing untold misery and threatening to spill over into the neighbourhood. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025, Crisis Group explores how the EU and its member states can assist ...

Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated industry upside down. Their favored customers are pregnant women needing ...

South African fashion retailer Truworths warned on Friday that its half-year profit will fall by up to 8%, mainly due to a ...

South Africa's rand gained on Friday, lifted by stronger precious metal prices and the local central bank's hawkish tone at a monetary policy announcement a day earlier.

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Today, the term "Big Five" refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa's most iconic animals. However, it has a much ...

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

Cheryl Gaw, 63, has rescued more than 2,500 pugs in South Africa over the years after she and her husband sold their house and generally reset their lives to help as many dogs in need as they ...

The contrast has to do with the country’s evolving stature both in Africa and the West, where officials have long admired ...