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 ...

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 ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Africa's health systems heavily depend on foreign aid, which has been declining since 2018 due to shifting donor priorities. This reliance leaves the continent ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Africa established an expert panel to address issues in Africa during the country’s chairmanship of the Group of 20 economies, including the continent’s high debt burden. African ...

FILE - South African soldiers, part of the Southern African Development Community's mission to fight against armed rebel groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, stand in Goma as ...

South Africa aiming to add 2,500 MW of nuclear capacity Trump has criticised South Africa and suspended aid Analysts say rift risks scuppering strategic nuclear pact CAPE TOWN, Feb 17 (Reuters ...

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.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors. More than the ...