For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

Inger Andersen, UNEP's chief, urges African nations to scale up climate and biodiversity finance, innovation, and leadership ...

The history of Africa Day is deeply rooted in the liberation movements that marked the 20th century. The starting point was in 1958, when the Congress of African States was held for the first time, a ...

To be African must mean more than holding a passport stamped by colonial cartography. It must mean belonging to a shared ...

In one of the hottest places on Earth, along an arid stretch of East Africa’s Afar region, it’s possible to stand on the exact spot where, deep underground, the continent is splitting apart. This ...

Africa’s name does not descend from the epistemic centers of Athens or Rome. The continent carries a name originating not from Greek philosophers or Roman conquerors, but from the indigenous Amazigh ...

This article explores South Africa’s post-apartheid relations with its immediate region and the rest of Africa; covering the period of 1994 to 2019. South Africa maintains the largest diplomatic ...

ACCRA/GENEVA, 10 December 2025 —African leaders can put the continent back on track to end AIDS by 2030 by choosing to ...

Africa’s housing deficit remains one of the continent’s most pressing development challenges, driven by rapid population ...

Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, was founded in 2009 and specialises in modern and contemporary art, ...

It began quietly mdash; a Nigerian aircraft making an unremarkable landing under circumstances that are still being contested ...