Earth's warming climate is causing problems for big coffee producers everywhere and some are looking to a rarely cultivated species that may stand up better to drought and heat
February 28, 2025
The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints
March 03, 2025
Ghanaian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would become one of Africa's most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation, three sponsors told
March 03, 2025
Egypt and the European Commission have signed a 90 million euro ($93.9 million) soft funding agreement to enhance food security, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation said on
March 03, 2025
Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach have cut March's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 0.9-3.2% from the previous month because of lower oil prices and
March 03, 2025
Congolese soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel last week to stand trial for crimes including rape and
March 03, 2025
South African manufacturers reported a continued deterioration in business conditions in February, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on Monday.
March 03, 2025
South African food producer RCL Foods reported a 38.8% rise in half-year earnings on Monday and declared its first interim dividend in two years, sending its
March 03, 2025
As nations mark World Wildlife Day, conservationists in Kenya are warning of shrinking wildlife spaces in a country that generates substantial revenue from wildlife tourism
March 03, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo threatened to expel a political mission sent to his country by the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), the political and
March 02, 2025
Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the
March 01, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Sunday that Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan, which ensures Palestinians remain in their land,
March 02, 2025
Saudi Arabia's stock market ended lower on Sunday, extending losses for a fourth session, amid disappointing corporate earnings, while Egypt's stock index was buoyed by
March 02, 2025
Trump wants to protect South Africa’s White farmers. But potential changes to trade privileges would hurt them
March 02, 2025
Mauritius' Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has described as "positive" U.S.
March 02, 2025
The World Health Organization says a 4-year-old child has become the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda
March 01, 2025
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding
March 01, 2025
Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries
March 01, 2025
African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged
March 01, 2025
At least four people died after cyclone Garance struck the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday, bringing wind speeds of up to 155 kph (96 mph), local authorities said
March 01, 2025
Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel's "formulation" of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire.
March 01, 2025
Many Jamaicans want their country to ditch King Charles as head of state but a bill presented by the government to do just that has
March 01, 2025
The World Health Organization says that authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated
February 28, 2025
Officials say the bodies of 12 out of at least 16 Pakistanis who died this month when a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off Libya’s coast have been repatriated to Pakistan
February 28, 2025
Dale Whitnell has made two holes-in-one in a round that started with him worrying about just making the cut at the South African Open
February 28, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo's government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels traded blame on Friday for explosions at a rally in the rebel-held eastern city of Bukavu that killed 13 people and
February 28, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was concerned about the detention and the health of Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria, and added that it was time to
February 28, 2025
At least three people died when cyclone Garance slammed into the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday with wind speeds of up
February 28, 2025
Malawi's government trimmed its economic growth forecast for this year in its annual budget on Friday as disgruntled citizens protested in major cities over rising
February 28, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday
February 28, 2025
Forces fighting alongside Sudan's army said on Friday they had intercepted a substantial quantity of military supplies from a convoy destined for the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
February 28, 2025
British international development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in a surprise move triggered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's
February 28, 2025
A parallel government being set up by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) aims to grab diplomatic legitimacy from its army-led rival and ease access to advanced weaponry
February 28, 2025
An Israeli delegation in Cairo aims to negotiate to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal by an additional 42 days, two Egyptian security sources said on Friday.
February 28, 2025
Namibia's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge against last year's presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling
February 28, 2025
ArcelorMittal South Africa will cease long steel production by April this year after discussions with the government failed to avert the plant's closure, the company said on Friday.
February 28, 2025
Tropical cyclone smashes into French Indian Ocean island, bringing 100-mile-an-hour winds
February 28, 2025
With Morocco’s sheep herds dwindling at an alarming rate, King Mohammed VI made a rare break with tradition by urging families to forgo buying sheep to sacrifice during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha
February 27, 2025
Senegal’s government has signed an agreement with separatist rebels to bring peace in its southern region, where an armed rebellion has been raging for over 40 years over calls for independence
February 27, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron urged residents on the French overseas territory of Reunion to hunker down on Thursday as a cyclone barrelled toward the Indian Ocean island.
February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-UK military base in the Chagos
February 27, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed a visit by a lobby group for the country’s white minority Afrikaner community to the White House this week
February 27, 2025
Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what is behind illnesses that have surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people
February 27, 2025
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Thursday warned of "very strong" uncertainty on the global economic outlook that required vigilance in setting monetary policy
February 27, 2025
U.S.-funded projects worldwide, including those providing lifesaving care for millions of people in countries such
February 27, 2025
At least 11 people have been killed and scores injured in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu where explosions struck a rally held by leaders of the M23 rebel group that took control of the city earlier this month
February 27, 2025
Explosions killed 11 people and wounded 65 at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday, the leader of the rebel alliance said, blaming President Felix
February 27, 2025
South Africa voiced dismay on Thursday that Group of 20 talks it hosted on global economic issues ended without consensus, after
February 27, 2025
Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage and say many humanitarian programs will collapse after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts
February 27, 2025
Explosions at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu killed 11 people and wounded 65 others, Corneille Nangaa, head of the rebel alliance
February 27, 2025
Growing external debt burdens are crippling the world's poorest countries, a group of former African leaders warned on Thursday as they pushed for a new
February 27, 2025
The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide
February 27, 2025
Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
February 27, 2025
Weak external demand and the impact of conflicts slowed economic growth again in countries covered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
February 27, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he wanted to "do a deal" with U.S.
February 27, 2025
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday to hold discussions with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia's presidency said,
February 27, 2025
Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, in an overnight
February 26, 2025
King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked Moroccans on Wednesday to abstain from performing the rite of slaughtering sheep on Eid al-Adha this year due to a drop in the
February 26, 2025
Japan's top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, said on Wednesday he did not see any disparity between recent rises in the yen and a slew of positive economic data
February 26, 2025
Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick
February 26, 2025
More than 100 firefighters are battling two blazes on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain
February 26, 2025
Satellite images show at least three drones and the construction of hangars at an airport in South Darfur held by Sudan's Rapid
February 26, 2025
France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are
February 26, 2025
The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides
February 26, 2025
British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday she was confident that U.S.-UK trade and investment would not be derailed as President Donald Trump
February 26, 2025
President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the latest sign of a drive by Moscow to build up economic and
February 26, 2025
South Africa's G20 presidency this year will prioritise efforts to help developing countries finance their shift to a low-carbon economy, President Cyril
February 26, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's opposition has vowed to bring the West African country to a standstill on Thursday in a dispute over when the five-year mandate of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo
February 26, 2025
Nigeria's national museum
February 26, 2025
South Africa sought to salvage international talks on tackling global poverty on Wednesday as finance chiefs from several leading economies skipped
February 26, 2025
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting
February 26, 2025
Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the bodies of Israeli hostages would take place through "a new mechanism" that guaranteed Israel's
February 26, 2025
Nigeria is automating its electronic visa approval and issuance process in an effort to boost travel and business, the interior minister said.
February 26, 2025
International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who have made lightning advances in eastern Congo this year,
February 26, 2025
US Justice Dept to ramp up staffing for immigration cases
Australia household spending rises for fourth month in January
Trump policy change prompts bid to dismiss foreign agent case
US dollar struggles near 4-month low amid growth concern; jobs data in spotlight
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