This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

ONE Youth Ambassador Eden Tadesse weighs in on why Africa matters not only for its people but also for the future of our ...

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

South Africa’s government of national unity forged after the 2024 elections refutes the claim that there are two antagonistic ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

A new global risk map for 2025 identifies countries that have the potential to pose high-risk and extreme risk for travelers.

Analysis - The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in ...

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for nine countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organizations say.

The 2021 Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah (left) captivated the audience in a wide-ranging conversation Oct. 30 ...

It was a milestone moment for the Lobito Corridor, an initiative backed by a US and Europe that aims to create an efficient transport link from Africa ... to some of the world’s largest ...

Its spread in Congo and elsewhere in Africa prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global emergency in August. Britain recorded more than 3,000 cases of another type of mpox during a ...

Rugby is one of South Africa’s most popular sports and the country’s national team, the Springboks, are the reigning world champions. William is also a rugby follower. “I can promise that ...