A landmark gathering of more than 57,000 participants - the largest in the history of the World Urban Forum - closed on Friday in Baku with an urgent call to rethink how the world houses its people, ...

As the daughter of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, Juliana Lumumba carries one of Africa's most powerful political names. Now, the former culture minister of the Democratic Republic of ...

Upon learning United States President Donald Trump was looking for African nations to take in deported third-country migrants, Eswatini was among the first to volunteer. Now lawyers in the southern ...

Darfur's livestock markets are overflowing, while conflict drives huge regional price gaps. Livestock markets across Sudan's western regions are bustling ahead of Eid El Adha*, with traders reporting ...

As the World Health Organisation raises its risk assessment for the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo to the highest level, neighbouring countries Uganda and Rwanda have imposed travel ...

The federal government has announced plans to expand the Deep Blue Project to vulnerable coastal and maritime corridors across the country, including the sensitive Bakassi axis, as part of efforts to ...

Analysis - Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is even born ...

Analysis - Mali and Nigeria, two of the countries in the Sahel region of west Africa, are separated by approximately 1,000 kilometres, with the Niger Republic between them. They differ in population ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has fired Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government after months of tension. The alliance between the president and his former mentor looked ...