Africa

The CEO of Nigerian fintech Flux says dropping out of college helped to pave the way for the launch of a new crypto payments company.

Solar and wind energy could replace fossil fuels entirely to become the world’s power source by 2050, a new report has claimed.

A top military commander says that Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has been killed on the battlefield in a fight against rebels

Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Pricepally Chief Executive Luther Lawoyin spoke to CNBC Make It about what the lessons he’s learned as a founder.

President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed the new chief of the World Trade Organization, becoming the first woman and African to ever lead the institution.

Ugandans head to the polls on Thursday as singer-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine looks to deny incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a sixth term.

Winniefred Akrello and Celestine Mugisha have a lot to smile about this Christmas. The Chicago couple will be spending their first Christmas together in the U.S. after spending four years apart. The couple spent just one night together as a married couple in Uganda before Mugisha was told to pack his bags for his resettlement in America. The day...

Firms and organizations are turning to a broad set of tools to develop new buildings.

Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, was a branch of the country’s police force created in 1992 to deal with crime incidents. However, more recently, it has been the subject of massive protests for its links to murders and other illegal activities. LX News talked to young activists Tiffany Isesele and Adedoyin Adeniji, who created a website to raise awareness...

Schools are reopening in Zimbabwe, along with churches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions

United Airlines is setting its sights on Africa and India, regions that have long been minor players in its network as it tries to expand as profitably as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.

A new study shows that teenage male elephants aren’t as anti-social as once thought

For years, cosmetics giants Unilever and L’Oreal have marketed skin whitening creams to women with less-than-subtle ads promoting “fair skin” as more desirable than naturally darker shades

Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses _ 275 _ found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks

The COVID-19 pandemic means that millions of women in Africa and other developing regions could lose years of success in contributing to household incomes, asserting their independence and expanding financial inclusion.

Congo’s health ministry and the World Health Organization have declared an end to the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history

A layer of dust and sand is headed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. Find out what that means for the United States.

Lockdowns in Africa limiting the movement of people in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus are threatening to choke off supplies of what the continent needs the most: Food