It is not every day that the prospect of a new country materialises. The last to be born was South Sudan in July 2011, when ...

Nollywood, Africa’s largest film industry, has long been dominated by men behind the camera. However, a powerful wave of ...

Jenifa's Diary star Tobi Makinde introduced his father, Akinjimi Olufisayo Makinde, in a heartfelt video featuring Nollywood ...

Olympics semifinalist, Ezekiel Nathaniel, has shattered Africa’s 400m indoor record again, lowering it to 44.74secs at the 2025 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship in Lubbock, Texas, USA on ...

Last year, the African Union declared 2024 “The Year of Education.” This was a crucial call to action for African nations to accelerate their efforts towards ensuring quality education for all, as a ...

South Africa v Nigeria (Group C) Benin v Lesotho (Group C) Zimbabwe v Rwanda (Group C) Cape Verde v Cameroon (Group D) Angola v Mauritius (Group D) Libya v Eswatini (Group D) Zambia v Morocco ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors. More than the ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A UN armored personnel carrier burns during clashes with M23 rebels outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.