Africa

South Africa’s top political party has proposed a social safety net that’s been called the first national universal basic income (UBI) program. Experts say that’s a gross exaggeration. The African...

A second person has died in South Africa this week from the viral infection mpox, says the health ministry, less than 24 hours after it announced the first death. Previously...

Bari, Italy – Africa is set to be high on Italy’s agenda this year at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ meeting, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni aims to position...

Since the big wave of independence from European rule swept Africa in 1960, no country on the continent has joined the exclusive club of the world’s richest nations. Africa is...

In the days before South Africa’s May 29 election, there was a euphoric atmosphere in parts of the cosmopolitan but largely Zulu port city of Durban. People who would usually...

Researchers with the University of South Florida plan to leverage AI to revolutionize the monitoring and current state of mosquito control and combat the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria...

Some of South Africa’s major opposition parties have said they are considering a proposal by the African National Congress (ANC) to form a national unity government. The ANC won most of...

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others aboard a small military plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in a mountainous area in the southern African nation, the country’s...

South Africa’s 30-year-old democracy is in uncharted waters. The African National Congress (ANC)—the party that led South Africa to liberation from apartheid minority rule—has, for the first time since 1994,...

A recently-published study claims that the sounds of African elephants may have a lot more significance than humans think. The research, which was published in a journal called Nature Ecology...