For centuries, Black Americans have carried an invisible thread connecting them to the African continent—woven through ...

South Africa’s ranking in the global index of countries with gender parity has slightly regressed but the country managed to remain among the top 20 of the world’s most gender-equal countries.

The death toll included six high school students who were washed away when their school bus was caught in floodwaters on ...

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

Gene Likhanya's macadamia nut farm, started with personal savings and built up over two decades in South Africa's picturesque Madimbo valley, faces a sudden challenge from U.S. import tariffs that is ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the Southern Africa region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

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The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is ascendant at a time when U.S. and European troops have been withdrawing from the region, forced out by ...

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A hard-won recovery in sub-Saharan Africa has been overtaken by recent events ... An extra premium is now on resilience—a country’s ability to rebound quickly from future shocks. The region’s progress ...

He planned to extend his trip to South Africa and not just end it in Botswana. An epic journey that would take him 34 days for the round—not all of them finished the journey though. “We left the ...