Africa

The US is not allowing anyone with ebola into the country, so the government has built a treatment centre for Americans in Kenya. It’s the one nation in the region that’s clear of the disease. Locals are not happy

Angélique Kidjo takes back the African sounds borrowed by western artists – and makes better records from them

Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic

From poverty and conflict to inadequate infrastructure and stagnating economies, the challenges facing the continent are immense

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too

Migrants from north Africa are trying to walk across the Alps. And many are dying in the attempt

Macron wants a reset, but unravelling the country’s tangled legacy in the continent is proving harder than it sounds

A recent visit to Algeria was part of efforts to write a new chapter in diplomacy - but the ghosts of France's exploitative colonial past linger on

Priti Patel should take note of the way the West African nation embraces migrants

When Boris Johnson’s government cut the aid budget in 2020, it dealt a devastating blow to charities and the people they support, but did it also sound the death knell for the UK’s role as an aid superpower?

What are its causes? What are the solutions? And, more importantly, why does the West choose to ignore them?

Black History is a rich and complex tapestry. In this spirit, BONNIE GREER introduces one of her ancestors, an African American slave owner

The Cameroonian soccer player has his eyes set firmly on the prize, writes ROB HUGHES.

A one-time economic tiger and a linchpin of stability in a fragile region, Ethiopia now stands on the brink of disaster. What happened to Africa’s oldest independent country?

Somaliland is introducing the world’s most advanced voting system. It is, says CALESTOUS JUMA, just one example of the way African countries are surprisingly skipping ahead in technological innovation Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers of innovation. Technological […]