A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has been described ...

Amref Health Africa Group CEO Dr. Githinji Gitahi, reminded African leaders and global stakeholders to rethink health investments. This, he said, will help build resilient and sustainable health ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, right, chats with a colleague at the G20 Finance Ministers and ...

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 ...

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.

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

Construction on a key weir in the Kern River at Coffee Road got underway Feb. 20, more than two years after the Bakersfield Water Resources Department was first awarded grant funding to replace ...

South Africa's power utility Eskom has announced controlled outages, cutting 3,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid due to what it called a 'temporary setback.' The measure, known as load ...

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 ...

Legend has it Bernard Shabangu's grandfather, Bhobho, once speared down a lion that was terrorising his community in Mpumalanga, a province in eastern South Africa. The story goes that the lion ...