Africa: Humanitarian Workers Risk Their Lives to Help Others

This year's World Humanitarian Day is being commemorated at a time of increased risk for the thousands of aid workers who put their lives on the line every day to help millions of… Read more »

Africa: Chinese Social Media Platforms Fail to Control Racism Against Black People - Report

A new report by Human Rights Watch finds that racist content denigrating Black people is increasingly common on the Chinese internet, and that major social media platforms and… Read more »

Africa: Young People Want Education, Jobs for Better Future

Education skills and employability are the pathway to a better life -- that is the key takeaway expressed by 40% of young people across all age groups who participated in a survey… Read more »

Africa: China and Wagner in Africa - Friends or Foes?

China's "friendship without limits" with Russia may be tested in Africa, where Beijing's long-established economic interests are at risk of clashing with the growing footprint of… Read more »

Africa: African Broadcasters - Radio Still Reigns Supreme Across Continent

Broadcasters from more than 45 African countries, meeting this week in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde, said radio reigns supreme over all other mass media on the continent,… Read more »

Africa: Six Countries Restricted Internet Access Due to Protests or Political Crisis - Report

A cyber security company says six African countries, including war-torn Sudan, enforced internet limits within their territory during the first half of 2023. Read more »

Africa: Target 'Niche' Chinese Travelers, Not Numbers, Tourism Experts Tell Africa

African countries are investing heavily in trying to attract tourists from the world's biggest outbound travel market, China, as they battle to recover from losses suffered during… Read more »

Africa: China's Military Influence in Africa Grows As Russia's Diminishes

China's People's Liberation Army marked the 96th anniversary of its founding this week with President Xi Jinping overseeing celebrations in China, but the anniversary was also… Read more »

Africa: France Faces Uncertain Way Forward in Africa's Sahel Region

Planeloads of French citizens are returning home. Anti-French demonstrations are peppered with Russian flags. French military and political interests are once again under attack in… Read more »

Africa: Communications Director Discusses U.S. Dismissal of Russia's Offer of Free Grain to Africa

The Biden administration is dismissing Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to supply free grain to several African nations whose leaders are attending a summit in St.… Read more »

Africa: Putin Promises Russian Grain Shipments to Africa

Russian President Vladimir Putin told leaders and officials from African countries on Thursday that Moscow would provide grain for sale or free to the neediest countries to avert… Read more »

Africa: Amid Chinese Foreign Ministry Shake-up, Wang On Africa Tour

This week as Beijing suddenly announced that China's foreign minister Qin Gang had been removed after just seven months in the job, his predecessor and now replacement, seasoned… Read more »

Africa: What Africa and Russia Have to Gain From Summit

JOHANNESBURG -- African leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, are heading to St. Petersburg this week for the second Russia-Africa Summit, as an isolated… Read more »

Africa: Activists Want Egypt to Ease Entry for Refugees From Sudan Conflict

With Sudan's conflict now at the 100-day mark, advocacy groups are calling on Sudan's neighbor Egypt to ease entry requirements for refugees, saying displaced Sudanese face a dire… Read more »

Africa: Ukraine War Looms Large Over Russia-Africa Summit

African leaders are to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg at the end of this month for a summit, billed as strengthening cooperation in peace, security,… Read more »

Africa: Understanding the Implications of No Black Sea Grain Deal

Russia said Monday it is ending its participation in a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine safe passage to export grain from three Ukrainian ports past Russian warships on the Black… Read more »

Africa: Time to Revalue African Economies, African Development Bank Chief Says

The year 2023 has so far not been a good one for Africa. Conflict has erupted in Sudan, deepened in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spread southward from the Sahel. Read more »

Africa: African Leaders At Business Summit Call for Extension of Trade Deal With U.S.

Leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Botswana have urged renewal of the long-standing Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA). Read more »

Africa: Egypt Holds Conference With Sudan's Neighbours On New Ceasefire

Egypt is seeking ways to make an elusive cease-fire hold in the bloody Sudan conflict that has killed thousands and forced Sudan's residents into at least six neighboring countries… Read more »

Africa: Conflict, Climate Change, Inequality Trigger Surge in Global Hunger

Hopes of ending hunger by the end of this decade have all but evaporated as multiple crises -- climate change, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, including… Read more »

Africa: WFP - Growing Number of Refugees From Sudan's Darfur Region Crossing Into Chad

The United Nations food agency says thousands of people are crossing the border into the central African nation of Chad from neighboring Sudan to escape the nearly three-month-old… Read more »

Africa: Will Prigozhin's Brief Russia Rebellion Have an Impact in Africa?

Analysts say it's too early to assess how the Wagner Group's operations in Africa will be affected after its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to lead troops into Moscow over the… Read more »

Africa: UN's World Refugee Day Celebrates Courage and Contributions of Refugees

At a time of growing hostility toward refugees, the United Nations is marking World Refugee Day to honor the courage and contributions to society of people forcibly uprooted from… Read more »

Africa: Somalia Facing Uncertainty As African Troops Leave

A rapid collapse of state institutions may await Somalia when the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, or ATMIS, ends at the end of 2024, unless the United Nations' weapons… Read more »

Africa: Rwandan Refugees in Malawi Complain of Being Targeted and Victimized

Rwandan refugees and asylum-seekers in Malawi say they fear being deported or losing their right to stay in the country, following steps by the government to apprehend refugees… Read more »