A deadly car crash in Nigeria involving former boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two minibus accidents in South Africa have highlighted Africa's poor road safety record ...

"Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction." In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

The impoverished families of Sub-Saharan Africa face many problems: poor governance, sluggish economies scarce in good jobs, frail civil society, and in some cases the specter of violent conflict. But ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - China's zero-tariff access for Africa's least developed countries kicked in this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said, just as U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola. WHY IT'S ...

Recently, my family hopped on the United Airlines Boeing 747 from Washington, DC, heading out to Lagos to celebrate my wife’s landmark birthday. This was the second time in 15 years that my three boys ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory CoastABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The Ghana Football Association has apologized for the national team’s disappointing Africa Cup of Nations campaign and says it will take “the requisite steps ...

Climate change is having a compounding impact on Africa, while straining the continent's economic growth. In my two decades of residency in Cairo, Egypt, I've never witnessed a winter as warm as this ...

Africa’s disappointing economic performance since independence in the 1960s is often blamed on corruption, poor governance and lack of competition. But structurally, the main reason is demographics.

"As treasurer of my stokvel, I had to go to the bank almost every day to find out what is happening," said Annah Muambadzi, 65, of the panic that gripped her savings club. Fear spread through poor ...

* Poor nations need $267 bln/year on climate-Africa * $200 billion/yr to curb emissions, $67 bln to adapt * Figures far above aid by recession-hit developed nations By Alister Doyle, Environment ...