Russia is preparing this weekend to show off its vision of a “multipolar world” aimed at countering perceived Western hegemony with a large gathering of African foreign ministers. The meeting in Sochi ...

Africa’s working-age population is growing faster than any other region, driven by progress in child survival over the last two decades. Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa invests less in education per capita ...

BRICS nations have concluded their meeting in the Russian city of Kazan, resolving to deepen economic ties. Some analysts say BRICS offers Africa a bigger say in the changing global order.

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

Floods killed about 1,500 people and displaced more than one million in West and Central Africa this year, according to UN aid agency OCHA. The rains also overwhelmed dams in Nigeria and Sudan.

About 90% of the deaths from the world's estimated 200 million cases of malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Children under the age of ... diagnosis and treatment, integrated vector management and ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has asked Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy out of the administrative capital, Pretoria, in a move that’s seen as appeasing ...

It could be easy to overlook the dangers of tensions rising again in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s fixation on securing an outlet to the Red Sea, and his proven ...