South Africa's leader visited the region where devastating floods have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the ...

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.

Countries agreed to return for the next round of climate talks in November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with stronger commitments to put the world on track for 1.5°C.

Reactions to COP28’s conclusion have been understandably mixed. Going into the talks, the world was more on track to avert catastrophic warming than it would have been without the 2015 Paris Agreement ...

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

Officials say at least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. An extreme cold front brought ...

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.

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

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 ...