Russia is offering governments in Africa a "regime survival package" in exchange for access to strategically important natural resources, a major new report has found. Internal Russian government ...

More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims ...

Onyango, 32, was the first to get jiggers, and as time went by, his family members, including the new-born, got them as well. His 24-year-old wife is worst affected. Adhiambo’s hands ...

South Africa's marine realm is globally unique because of the two major ocean currents that meet here. The cold, slow-moving ...

[PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD] NAIROBI, KENYA: Researchers have discovered an effective and affordable drug for fighting jiggers which could replace the current method of physical removal of the parasite.

The killings of 18 members of one family assembled for a gathering last month are among an increasing number of mass ...

A cocktail jigger is an important tool in a bartender's drink-making arsenal for crafting tasty, elegant adult beverages. But have you ever wondered why it is shaped like an hourglass? The answer ...

By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor A new $40 million fund, called the Next Narrative Africa Fund, has been unveiled “to empower content creators in Africa and the diaspora” and finance the ...

Since the start of Africa’s Green Revolution, opens new tab in the middle of the last century, he argues, vast quantities of artificial fertilisers have been added to the soil, often ...

Building on the Dakar Action Plan – signed in the Senegalese capital in 2021 to strengthen cooperation in trade, infrastructure and development – the new deal promises African countries ...

New cases have been increasing for eight weeks running and rose by 13% over the past week compared with the previous week, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

See All Key Ideas Across Africa, numerous ecosystems are under pressures ... to cultivate both cash crops such as cacao and clearing new plots to grow food for their own use, and the expansion ...