A proposed African charter aimed at promoting family values, national sovereignty and cultural identity is drawing support ...

From 2000 to 2019, on average the continent gained 10 years of additional life expectancy and 9 years of healthy life ...

Africa can now rely on the services of a satellite constellation tailored for the continent to provide reliable data over a wide range of essential human activities and for the protection of the ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

The Catholic Church's conclave to select the next pope will begin May 7, with some wondering if the church will continue down the path of non-European pontiffs by electing an African pope. This ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, the ...

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Kenya's Great Rift Valley Shankar S. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent ...