Category: Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim, the South African pianist and composer whose spare, meditative sound carried Cape Town’s musical memory into the global jazz canon, has died

Africa’s top disease control agency has warned that the true scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be established

Côte d’Ivoire is set to extend electricity access to more than 100,000 households after the African Development Bank Group approved €103.14 million in financing

Spiro has raised $215 million in equity financing to expand its electric motorcycles, battery-swapping network and energy infrastructure across Africa, marking one of the

Johannesburg has become the opening stage for a European Union push to turn a pledged €12 billion investment package for South Africa into bankable

KLM has cancelled flights to and from Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport after Ebola-related travel controls made crew movements difficult, adding pressure on East Africa’s

Millions of Ethiopians began voting on Monday in the country’s 7th General Election, a high-stakes parliamentary and regional contest expected to consolidate Prime Minister

Congo has widened Ebola testing in its eastern provinces after laboratory results showed about 260 positive samples, sharpening concern that the outbreak’s true scale

Liberia’s push to link women’s livelihoods with protection from violence has moved into a new phase after UN Women Liberia and its partners convened

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has widened to 1,077 suspected cases and 246 deaths, intensifying pressure on health authorities as responders struggle to contain transmission in

Africa’s top continental body has launched a new humanitarian coordination platform aimed at tightening crisis response across a region facing widening displacement, hunger, conflict

South Africa’s diesel shock has turned a distant Middle East conflict into a domestic economic threat, exposing how sharply the country’s transport, mining, farming

Forty high-performing schoolgirls from underprivileged communities in Ghana will receive annual scholarships under the newly launched Educating Linda programme, a joint initiative of Merck

MTN Uganda is exploring a partnership with Starlink as the arrival of satellite broadband reshapes the country’s data market and pushes established telecom operators

Rugby Africa has appointed former NBA Africa executive Aïcha Diop as chief of staff to its president, Herbert Mensah, in a move aimed at

Afreximbank’s partnership with Plot Enterprise Ghana is placing cocoa processing, rural employment and African creative exports at the centre of a wider push to

Health authorities have moved to contain a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, triggering an

Africa is losing about $5 billion a year to currency conversion costs, exposing a costly weakness in the continent’s ambition to build a seamless

South Africa’s rand firmed in early Wednesday trade as investors turned their attention to Beijing, where talks between U. S. President Donald Trump and

South Africa’s retailers are paying a widening price for weak security systems, with losses now extending beyond stolen stock to staff safety, customer confidence,

 Nigeria’s equities market has moved into a stronger expansion cycle as abundant domestic liquidity, expectations of looser monetary conditions and a widening valuation rerating

Nairobi became the centre of a sharper debate over Africa’s economic future on Monday as the Africa Forward Summit 2026 opened with agriculture emerging

Rwanda has moved to strengthen its access to the Central Corridor through a standard gauge railway link intended to connect Kigali with Tanzania’s expanding

Botswana’s beef industry is under mounting pressure as foot-and-mouth disease disrupts exports, closes key slaughter facilities and threatens rural incomes in a country where