Compared to the chaotic state of Western nations, Russia looks to Africans like a stable, reliable power — whatever internal ...

Africa’s emerging role in the global helium supply chain is gaining traction, with South Africa’s Virginia gas project, based ...

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

Although views to the contrary have occasionally been aired – sometimes underpinned by what seems to be solid empirical research hinting at African involvement in the drawing up of the continent’s ...

A fter John Uwagboe moved to Scotland in 2008 he did not see another black man for several weeks. When at last he did, on the ...

Another cause is economics. Many African countries are entering a phase in their development in which people are still poor ...

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical ...

A team of researchers has identified 162 protected areas (PAs) across Africa with above-average potential for nature conservation, arguing that their effective management could play a critical role in ...

5,6 Investments in research will also need to reach a broader set of countries; since 2016 more than half of all biomedical research funding to Africa went to just three countries (ie, South Africa, ...

South Africa is better able than most African countries to offer refuge to those displaced by the long war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So why aren’t we doing so? The fighting in the DRC since ...