The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics are set to have a "monumental" impact when the Senegalese capital becomes the first African ...

South Africa's Banyana Banyana will kick off their Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) campaign against Tanzania on Monday ...

I first traveled to Africa when I was five years old, and I’ve returned every year since. No matter how many times I go, I’m always filled with that same excitement and awe I had as a little boy.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report ...

African football left fans of the 2026 FIFA World Cup with conflicting emotions, as record fell and the continent's footballers shone... but only to a point. On paper, it was comfortably the continent ...

In many ways, there has never been a better time to be born African. Since 1960, average life expectancy has risen by more than half, from 41 years to 64. The share of children dying before their ...

JOHANNESBURG: Millions of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), spending Christmas under the reported threat of persecution, kidnapping, sexual violence and in some cases, death from Islamist ...

Adams appeared in three of South Africa's group-stage matches at this summer's World Cup, in the United States, Canada and ...

Not long ago, I saw an article that would have both delighted and exasperated the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. “Entrepreneurs are planning autonomous ‘charter cities’ as an answer to ...

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Novo Nordisk ​will launch a more affordable authorised copy of its Ozempic diabetes drug in ‌South Africa later this month, partnering with healthcare company Acino to expand patient access.

Yet the renewed discussion of LAPSSET is also a sign of a wider shift in thinking among African policymakers and some ...