Africa

Police pledge intensified action as rape and sexual assault cases climb

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have already forced 94,000 people to flee

Endangered species face threats from snares, growing human populations and shrinking habitats

In 2029 Kenya will be the first African country to host the World Athletics Championships

Hundreds of people gathered at a mass funeral in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday to mourn 27 young victims of a fire that engulfed two schools, as families wept and officials laid wreaths and made speeches

Ugandan and South Sudanese rainmakers blamed for failed harvests and deadly floods

Aid groups are struggling with funding after the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in foreign assistance over the past year

Rangers in Kenya's Maasai Mara are using electric bikes to quietly patrol and reduce disturbances as part of a broader transition to clean, solar-powered transport

Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote opened his refinery to public ownership Monday with plans to raise $1.6 billion from retail investors across the continent in Africa’s biggest initial public offering, or IPO.

Jubilee Metals’ copper production from its Zambian operations more than tripled in the year to end-June, driven by higher output at its Roan operations and the start of production at its Molefe mine

Around 100,000 ecstasy pills moulded in the shape of Muammar Gaddafi were found

Fifty years after Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’, a new statistical framework maps the slave trade and colonial extraction onto today’s poverty patterns — and proposes a formula to reverse the drain

Locally available garments are increasingly made by homegrown entrepreneurs

Tooro mourns its late monarch as relatives clash over who should inherit the throne

An Egyptian deported from the US to Equatorial Guinea has been detained and reportedly held incommunicado after speaking out about alleged police violence against migrants