Urgent action needed to reinforce breast cancer control measures in Africa: World Health Organization (WHO) report ...

A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are adapting, and the barriers they face -- findings relevant to people living in ...

UNICEF is mainstreaming climate-smart programming to protect and empower young people, mitigate negative impacts and ...

By: Mukwandi Chibesakunda If there is one industry that can catalyse a fulsome transformation of African nations’ economies, it is mining. This has been said before, and applied too, in the context of ...

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

rather than aggregating countries by region and then summing each region’s surplus or deficit. 2. Current account data come from IMF balance of payments statistics. GDP data come from the IMF ...