Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent.

Explore how Zwide's vision and the Madiba Jive for Peace initiative are reshaping cultural economic geography in South Africa ...

Global power dynamics in Africa are shifting, with China eclipsing the influence of the US and France. China has become Africa’s single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in ...

The World Bank is launching Education Business Plan 2030 for Eastern and Southern Africa, to prepare over 200 million children and youth to transform Africa's future. The goal is for all children and ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War I, a map closer to what we now know as Africa would emerge. Historians point out that unlike what is widely believed, the Berlin ...

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New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Africa's health systems heavily depend on foreign aid, which has been declining since 2018 due to shifting donor priorities. This reliance leaves the continent ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

South Africa's power utility Eskom has announced controlled outages, cutting 3,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid due to what it called a 'temporary setback.' The measure, known as load ...