DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Several African nations committed on Monday to open up their electricity sectors to attract investors and light up homes of 300 million people currently lacking ...

By Saikou Jammeh Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three military-ruled countries have officially withdrawn from the West African regional alliance known as ECOWAS, the bloc said on Wednesday ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in ...

Gaw has rescued more than 2,500 pugs in South Africa over the years after she and her husband sold their house, lived in a trailer home for a while and generally reset their lives to help as many ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

Government-led plans to expand energy access with ambitious targets. Access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is critical for powering Africa, transforming economies, and reaching people ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor ...

Yet, for 600 million people in Africa, this right remains out of reach. They lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality of ...

Last week, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi completed the top Chinese leadership’s 140th trip to African countries since 2007. He did this by continuing a tradition that has been in place for ...

France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies, and fresh tensions ignited this week with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron.