A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase.

Discover the urgent need for pet sterilisation in Cape Town as six animal welfare organisations unite to combat the growing ...

Violent crime in South Africa has consistently been highly concentrated in a small number of urban areas. For example, 20% of ...

Herds of impala, wildebeest, kudu and other large herbivores are in decline across sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to rising levels of poaching by hunters seeking bushmeat for subsistence and profit.

There’s one kind of prediction that does not capture the public’s imagination as often but is nevertheless instrumental in ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

While it sounds like science fiction, about 500 people around the world have already taken the plunge – literally freezing themselves in time with the dream of a second chance at life.IMAGINE waking ...

An initiative led by the African Development Bank and World Bank is securing big money and political commitments to bring ...