Even where national parks are well run, their presence does little to help preserve semi-protected areas such as conservancies, where wildlife, livestock and their owners live side by side and which contain much of Africa’s richest flora and fauna.

US President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for ambassador to South Africa offered support for disputed claims that thousands of white Afrikaner farmers are under attack in Africa’s most industrialized nation, a row that has come to dominate fraying ties between the two countries.

A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.

South Africa and Nigeria have been removed from a global financial crime watchdog’s “grey list”, a relief for banks and investors in Africa’s two biggest economies.

On1, Kenya Airways became the first airline to operate a low-carbon flight within Africa that was half powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

South African club Orlando Pirates on Saturday became the first high-profile casualty of the 2025-26 CAF Champions League after losing on penalties to Saint-Eloi Lupopo of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The presidents of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, 92 and 83 respectively, are each seeking to extend decades of rule, reflecting a trend across Africa where some of the world's oldest leaders govern its youngest populations,

As G20 president, South Africa should encourage richer countries to support the Single African Air Transport Market.