This year, Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. The African Development Bank projects an annual economic growth rate of 4.3 per cent, up from 3.7 per cent last year, with East ...

Washington, DC — "Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years," Rama Yade, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote in a pre-Inauguration ...

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 ...

This year, the promotion of inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa is once again a major conversation topic at the gathering. Yet when it comes to Africa’s development, we too often mistake ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper amidst warnings a chunk of the continent is breaking away. An area of East Africa could be separated from the continent sooner than previously thought, with a ...

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 ...

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 ...