Indeed it was the first time France has held an Africa summit in an English-speaking country. After bruising recent setbacks ...

More than half of Africa’s presidents were in Nairobi this week, where French President Emmanuel Macron courted anglophone ...

The French president visited Kenya this week for a summit designed to build stronger ties with Anglophone African countries.

Gathered in Kigali for the 2026 Africa CEO Forum, the continent’s leading executives and public and private policymakers are ...

NKOMAZI, South Africa — Army helicopters rescued people stranded on rooftops and hundreds of tourists and workers were evacuated from one of the world's biggest game reserves, as torrential rains and ...

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The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opened on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the long-standing problems that have afflicted the world's poorest ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing headwinds it hasn’t experienced in more than 30 years. Since 2020, the region has been buffeted by coups, conflicts, and crises, with nine military takeovers in the past ...

At the Africa Forward Summit, SkyConnect is showing how Africa can turn idle ground stations into a shared network that cuts ...

“It’s no longer debatable,” scholars Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in Foreign Affairs in October 2021, “that the United States and China . . . are entering their own new cold war.” The ...

PRETORIA, May 12 (Reuters) - South Africa's official unemployment rate rose to 32.7% in the first quarter of 2026 from 31.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, data from the statistics agency showed on ...