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 ...

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ever since European settlers began arriving nearly four centuries ago.

As the world gathered in Paris for the AI Summit to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, a groundbreaking innovation is quietly reshaping Africa’s digital landscape.

The war has affected Black communities in other ways. Dozens of African-American Jews who live together in the southern city of Ashkelon were forced to evacuate due to incessant rocket fire from Gaza.

All to know about the eight nations competing in the tournament. A new land reform law is at the centre of Donald Trump’s aid freeze on South Africa. What does it actually do?

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.

Based on a memorandum of understanding signed at the September Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in Beijing, Haier will provide technological support for Togo’s ongoing photovoltaic and ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

An Integrated, Prosperous and Peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.

Trump’s freeze on aid to South Africa caps years of growing tension over everything from Russia and China to Israel.

An Integrated, Prosperous and Peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.

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