A team of researchers has identified 162 protected areas (PAs) across Africa with above-average potential for nature conservation, arguing that their effective management could play a critical role in ...

In 2024, nearly a third of the $41bn in US foreign aid went to Africa, helping support various sectors from healthcare to education and sanitation. But as aid organisations sound alarm bells and ...

Lesotho's garment factories have produced jeans for major US brands like Levi's and Wrangler. The US is its second-largest trading partner after South Africa. Amid fears of job losses, Shelile ...

Much has been made of Africa’s gaming landscape in recent years, with it seen as being on the rise from a player perspective, but the same cannot be said of African game developers. We hear ...

The Trump administration has imposed a steep 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, a small, impoverished African nation of two million people – the highest tariff levied on any country. The measure ...

Foreign companies are undervaluing Africa’s natural capital and paying derisory prices for its carbon sequestration, the head of the continent’s biggest development bank told the Financial Times. “We ...

An armed Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict could trigger a regional war, potentially altering East Africa’s borders[1]. Angola plays a key role in eastern Congo’s ongoing conflict, stemming from its own ...