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Making Health Innovations Thrive in Africa

According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. Despite the billions that international donors ...
Washington Post

U.S. aid cuts are being felt across Africa. Here’s where.

The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision to cut U.S. foreign assistance to Africa happened almost instantly: “Stop-work” orders froze lifesaving health programs and medical research ...
CNBC

Chinese consumer brands flood into Africa as old investment model fades and exports jump 28%

China's role in Africa is shifting from state-owned enterprise-led infrastructure to private consumer goods. Surge in Chinese exports and small entrepreneurs targeting Africa's growing consumer ...
The Economist

The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing

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 ...
Bloomberg

Africa Needs 1 Billion Jobs by the End of the Century. Where Will It Find Them?

Mapi Gloricien lies in his mother’s arms in a hospital in Kinshasa, among the fastest-growing cities on Earth. Just days old, he’s one of an estimated 4.5 million children expected to be born in the ...
Newsweek

Map Showing How Big Africa Really Is Goes Viral

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The post, shared by the account Africa First on X, asked viewers to ...
The Economist

To catch up economically, Africa must think big

Hedge funds are paid to anticipate the way the world is heading. So it was notable that a few months ago Nir Bar Dea, the boss of Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, was in Abidjan, the ...
CBS News

African nations want their stolen history back, and experts say it's time to speed up the process

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few ...
The New Yorker

How Binyavanga Wainaina Wrote About Africa

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 ...
Al Jazeera on MSN

Mapping Africa’s energy wealth and 560 million who remain without power

Africa is rich in energy, yet hundreds of millions Africans still live without electricity, most of the world’s total.