Although views to the contrary have occasionally been aired – sometimes underpinned by what seems to be solid empirical research hinting at African involvement in the drawing up of the continent’s ...

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 ...

5,6 Investments in research will also need to reach a broader set of countries; since 2016 more than half of all biomedical research funding to Africa went to just three countries (ie, South Africa, ...

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By the 1890s, Africa had become a central topic in European diplomacy, with countries signing numerous bilateral treaties that carved the continent into spheres of influence. MAP OF THE DIVISION ...

Road maps outline a way to tackle a number of problems, but it is always good to show the priority levels when making the road map so that all those who are involved has ample reasoning as why ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 50% rate for Lesotho was part of what Trump described as "reciprocal tariffs" imposed on imports from dozens of countries, including 20 in Africa. All nations face a minimum rate of 10%.

South Africa’s banking industry found itself in an uproar the night of March 16, when the heir apparent of its largest bank—and the continent’s—quit to take the helm of a crosstown rival. Kenny Fihla, ...

Yet, of the human genomes studied so far, only 2% have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech company in Ghana is addressing that through its Africa Cancer Atlas, partnering with groups across ...

Around the world, rituals of the holy fasting month have embedded themselves in other communities too - not least in Africa, where some 40 percent of the more than 1 billion people identify as Muslim.