From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map.

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

The four initiatives are the Global Development Initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and ...

The director of the Senegalese Space Study Agency has just led the launch of the first Senegalese nanosatellite into space ...

The Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has urged Europe to strengthen cooperation on immigration ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Anesvad Foundation (Bilbao, Spain) have signed a 2-year agreement valued at €1.4 million to support ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

The AU was supposed to be Africa’s collective problem-solving mechanism. Instead, it has become a stage for well-crafted ...

Celebrated Malian director Souleymane Cissé, who was the first sub-Saharan African director to win a major award at Cannes ...