For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

A busy street in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s second-largest city. Africa has the wherewithal to fight malaria as a rural disease, but urban outbreaks threaten to put vastly more people at risk.Credit ...

But monkeypox outbreaks have been occurring in parts of Central and West Africa for years, leaving African researchers there disheartened that such resources have not been made available in their ...

A military coup this week in Niger, a land-locked former French colony, marked the 13th attempt − 10 of them successful − to overthrow a government in Africa since 2020, according to researchers.

“One thing Pope Francis did was to animate and empower young people in Africa, and today Catholicism there is driven by youth who saw in Pope Francis something you didn’t often see,” he said.

But as the Pentagon resolves to keep approximately 1,100 troops in place in Niger and boost U.S. military presence in Africa, Nathaniel Powell, an analyst at the Oxford Analytica firm, argued that ...

Energy markets are being rocked by an unprecedented double-whammy. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Europe has cut energy imports from Russia, the world’s second-largest producer ...

With a median age of 19 years, Africa is young. These youngsters, who make up the majority of Africa’s population of 1.4 billion, have little to no connection to NATO. At 75, NATO is a relic of the ...

There’s excitement bubbling in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the Global AI Summit on Africa, which opens today, promising economic opportunities and innovation. Not least because of last week’s ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has lost its outright majority for the first time in a devastating blow for the party once led by Nelson Mandela.