U.S. President Donald Trump will host leaders from five African nations in Washington next week to discuss "commercial opportunities," a White House official said on Wednesday.

A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American.

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump’s appointment of a new head of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), indefinitely halting his directives to massively slash the ...

07/02/2025 The Ugandan military helicopter crashed at Mogadishu's airport as it was on its way to an African Union peacekeeping mission.

In African politics, the rampant belief in witchcraft fortifies some and vexes others Many Ugandan politicians are believed to retain the services of witch doctors, but they rarely admit it in ...

South Africa's proposed chrome ore export tax will hurt miners' profitability and lead to job losses across the sector, the country's Minerals Council has said.

Mamdani checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his Columbia University application as a high school senior in 2009.

At least three people were killed when a military helicopter serving the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed Wednesday at the airport in the capital, Mogadishu, according to ...

Musical icon Angélique Kidjo has become the first black African performer to be selected for a star on the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame.

US News: The complexities of racial identity and categorization are laid bare in the case of Zohran Mamdani, an Indian-born candidate for New York City mayor who identified as both Asian and ...

Mr. Mamdani’s self-identification as both Black or African American and Asian on his application points to the heterogeneity of his background and upbringing as the child of Indian Ugandan and ...