Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

U.S.A.I.D. The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s aid cuts. The United ...

CHINA DAILY Chinese companies have been playing a critical role in accelerating the process of energy transition and industrialization in Africa, and are expected to further unleash the continent ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order to freeze all U.S. aid to South Africa and to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners who want to leave the country. According to the ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War I, a map closer to what we now know as Africa would emerge. Historians point out that unlike what is widely believed, the Berlin ...

Global power dynamics in Africa are shifting, with China eclipsing the influence of the US and France. China has become Africa’s single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in ...

Yet much of it is common among young people across Africa. Better educated than their parents and full of entrepreneurial zeal, they find that their societies are not letting them fulfil their ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, ...

WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG, March 7 Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is stopping all federal funding to South Africa, but South Africa responded by saying it ...

February 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ESTyesterday at 5:00 a.m. EST 6 min Across the breadth of Africa, from the Atlantic ... Sahel surged by about 40 percent. Map showing countries currently ruled ...