Jihadist insurgencies there continue to spread as fighters have been quick to adapt to the new threat. They now use ...

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Lancet study underscores fears over potential impact of President Trump’s plan to nearly halve funding in 2025 ...

Total trade between China and Africa was worth $296bn in 2024. Yet the value of what China exported west ($179bn) was much ...

Senator Jim Risch discusses U.S. security challenges in Africa, including terrorism in Somalia, the war in Sudan, and the ...

A controversial South African politician central to a row over race relations in the country has been denied entry to the UK.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa was under a declared state of national disaster on Thursday as the death toll from floods caused ...

A patient in Angola was the first in a groundbreaking human clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Sicelo Mhlauli was one of four Black men abducted, tortured and killed 40 years ago this month by apartheid-era security ...

The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug ...

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch ...