This commentary is the first installment of a new column from the Africa Program called the Dizolele Brief, which connects the dots between seemingly disparate events and developments in Africa. A ...

NPR's Africa correspondent takes us to one of the few remaining hospitals, near the Sudanese capital.

Washington — President Biden will go to Africa next month for the first time as president, following through on a promise he made to visit the continent while in office. During the United ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

The UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future, convened 30 September - 2 October 2024, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity in ...

Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. A mysterious animal painted on a cave ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

Building on the Dakar Action Plan – signed in the Senegalese capital in 2021 to strengthen cooperation in trade, infrastructure and development – the new deal promises African countries ...

Africa may not always register on the average traveler's radar, but those who visit have the chance to experience the perfect blend of ancient and modern, wild and urban, and East and West.

For most of its modern history South Africa has been governed by a single dominant party. The National Party, architects of apartheid, was in charge from 1948 to 1994. After white rule ended the ...

A recent report from United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) sheds light on a concerning issue: child food poverty. The report, "Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood ...