Africa

Covid vaccines are not getting to Africa in time, in the right quantity and the right price, said Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank.

After a brutal wave of infections driven by the delta variant, many Ugandans seeking a first dose of coronavirus vaccine are competing with hundreds of thousands who have waited months for a second dose

Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared international system instead of waiting at the back of the line for unreliable donations from rich countries

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee just named 34 sites to the prestigious World Heritage List, representing two years’ worth of site nominations.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has acquired a stake in the NBA’s Africa business through his foundation

The NBA announced Barack Obama would use his new equity stake in NBA Africa to expand the Obama Foundation.

The developments represent the biggest challenge to Tunisia’s democracy since it was forged in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring protests.

Thousands of supporters of the president poured into streets, cheering the ouster of what they viewed to be corrupt and incompetent politicians. 

Covid cases in Africa are doubling every 18 days as the highly contagious delta variant rips through the continent.

Travelers regularly search for activities in New York, Paris and Rome — but the world’s most popular online travel search is in none of those places.

Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and deaths are increasing

Reports of new Covid cases have decreased in every region of the world except Africa, where weekly cases jumped 44% while fatalities rose 20%.

Wildlife cinematographer Bob Poole talks about the film you can see next Wednesday on PBS.

What’s the soul of soul food and where does it come from? In the new Netflix series “High on the Hog,” author and historian Jessica B. Harris and Stephen Satterfield talk about the connections between the African diaspora and foods in the American South in particular. The series follows those food traditions through the slave trade, Reconstruction and into the...

Maya Horgan Famodu has become a trailblazer in Africa’s venture capital industry, but her path to success hasn’t been straightforward. 

Genius Sports’ new deal with the NBA’s league in Africa could allow the sports data company to test second- and third-screen viewing presentations.

The world could be facing a shortage of an underappreciated yet crucial commodity in the years ahead: sand.

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