There’s excitement bubbling in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the Global AI Summit on Africa, which opens today, promising economic opportunities and innovation. Not least because of last week’s ...

According to the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Africa must cease its export of just raw materials if the continent hopes to compete globally. ・Africa's weak ...

Africa has an image problem. Or, put another way, the West has a perception problem. Because when we talk about Africa, more often than not, it's to talk about catastrophes and epidemics, and to ...

IT IS EASY to make a case that Donald Trump cares little about Africa. On July 1st he closed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), absorbing an institution that spent 40% of ...

Mountains of discarded clothes, often shipped to Africa under the guise of charity, are choking landfills, clogging waterways, and polluting communities. This tide of textile waste is a growing threat ...

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, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Chinese automakers are pushing to unlock Africa's underdeveloped potential, with a focus on electric and hybrid vehicles, as restrictions on exports to the United States and ...

Imraan Valodia receives funding from foundations that support independent academic research. Adam Habib does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

The top U.S. general for Africa endorsed keeping the military headquarters overseeing U.S. forces and operations in Africa and Europe separate, especially as Africa faces a growing terrorism threat ...

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists ...

Experts say there is little difference between apartheid and Jim Crow. LONDON -- Bongani Sibeko was just a toddler when he and his family were forced to flee their home in apartheid South Africa, as ...