Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up ...

Coups in Chad, Sudan, Guinea and Mali. Damaging and destabilising civil conflict in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Growing criminality and insecurity in Nigeria. The continuation of the Sahel crisis, which ...

Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again. We first emphasized ...

Last year was the third-warmest year for the continent, tied with 2019, with warming more pronounced here than the global average. The annual temperature in 2021 was 1.33°C (2.39°F) above average for ...

This year, the prestigious Booker prize, awarded to an outstanding book of fiction, and the Nobel Prize for Literature went south of the Sahara, to South African novelist Dalmon Galgut and Zanzibari ...

(Dakar) – African Union member states should urgently tackle the deepening human rights and democratic crises affecting the continent, including in Ethiopia, at the African Commission on Human and ...

(Nairobi) – Forces in the Central African Republic, whom witnesses identified as Russian, appear to have summarily executed, tortured, and beaten civilians since 2019, Human Rights Watch said today.

Growing at unprecedented rates, and shaped by forces both familiar and new, dozens of African cities will join the ranks of humanity’s biggest megalopolises between now and 2100. Several recent ...

For the tenth time, Micato Safaris has been ranked #1 on Travel + Leisure’s list of the World’s Best African Safari Tour Companies. “An African safari is an adventure like no other,“ says Dennis Pinto ...