Some type of pathogen may be behind the recent deaths of 39 elephants, a new wave that follows 350 deaths last summer.

Countries on the African continent need to consider the financial cost of upsetting a powerful ally.

‘Quite spectacular’ discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago

The UK creates clean energy systems at home, while shackling poorer nations with dirty fossil fuels – now is the time for rich countries to support Africa’s clean energy transition, writes Mohamed Adow.

The Senegalese-American singer has ambitious plans for “Akon City,” including conducting daily transactions using a digital currency.

The buried city of Aten was built in the golden age of Ancient Egypt, and would have been used by powerful pharaohs such as Tutankhamun.

Exactly 60 years ago, on 17th January 1961, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 35-year-old Patrice Lumumba, was tortured and then assassinated by members of the Belgian Secret Service. Four months earlier, he had been ousted in a coup that was led by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, his former Chief of Staff of the Army, and backed by Belgium, the United States, and the United Nations. Shortly before he was killed, Lumumba wrote the following letter to his wife, Pauline Opango.

Growing toll on fragile health systems prompts calls for more global equity...

Tom Bowker tweets that he has been banned from country for 10 years over alleged irregularities

An atheist advocate and doctor have added their voices to a crucial legal challenge to determine whether euthanasia should be legalised in South Africa.

Poaching figures dropped by a third in 2020, with South Africa's Environment Ministry citing the coronavirus lockdown as a significant reason for this. The country is home to 80% of the world's rhinoceroses.

Hundreds of students are feared missing after gunmen raided a secondary school in north-western Nigeria. The attackers arrived on motorbikes and started shooting into the air, causing people to flee, witnesses said. They targeted the Government Science Secondary School - where more than 800 students are said to reside - in Katsina state on Friday evening.

The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication yesterday officially declared the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region is free of wild polio virus. This significant declaration is working toward the goal of the world’s eradication of polio. In fact 5 out of 6 World Health Organization regions are now wild polio-free. When this last region declares it is wild polio-free, it will be the second virus eradicated from the world, since smallpox was given that declaration in May 1980.

Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.

Rhino poaching has decreased significantly in South Africa and Namibia. Rhino poaching in South Africa fell by 53 percent in the first six months of this year. During the first half of the year, 166 rhinos were killed across the country, compared to 316 rhinos killed in the first six months of 2019.

Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 – 1799) was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. The son of a wealthy married planter, and his wife's African slave. The black Mozart

Pangolins have been locally extinct in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province for the last 30 or 40 years, experts say. But now, local conservationists are working to slowly reintroduce these shy, sensitive animals in a world-first effort to reinstate wild populations.

The dress code in Ghana's offices on Fridays is all about African print. But one local brand selling office attire is boycotting it, arguing the print is not actually African. The boycott gives us a clue about the long and complicated history behind the clothes that many people wear in West Africa.

A study, led by the University of York, has examined fossil reefs near to the now-submerged Red Sea shorelines that marked prehistoric migratory routes from Africa to Arabia. The findings suggest this coast offered the resources necessary to act as a gateway out of Africa during periods of little rainfall when other food sources were scarce.