Global shipping companies looking for safer routes are turning to the Cape of Good Hope, a much longer, more expensive journey. By Zimasa Matiwane Reporting from Johannesburg As the world’s largest ...

In the mid-1990s the UN built an airstrip in Ngara, in the far west of Tanzania, to supply refugee camps near the border with Burundi. Three decades later it has a different use. Over the past year ...

The Senegalese football federation (FSF) has announced it will appeal the decision to strip the country of the Africa Cup of Nations title. The FSF described the unprecedented decision by the ...

On a Sunday morning in February, about a thousand people filled the high-ceilinged sanctuary at Mercy Culture, a nondenominational evangelical megachurch in Fort Worth, Texas. The senior lead pastor, ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

South Africa demonstrated remarkable economic resilience in the face of global turbulence in 2025, successfully maintaining macroeconomic stability and keeping inflation under control. Even so, the ...

The African Travel & Tourism Association (ATTA) has published its 2026 Travel Trends report which reveals that cultural immersion, heritage storytelling, conservation-led experiences and slow, more ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at what makes people feel proud of their country. We asked an open-ended question allowing people in 25 countries to share, in their own words, what makes them ...

Africa needs to respond to the rapid geopolitical changes with one voice, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on the sidelines of the African Union leaders’ summit, which concluded on Sunday. “What we ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy Pre-colonial African societies have long been seen ...