Africa

Deep in Morocco’s fertile heartlands, pickup trucks carrying migrants from sub-Saharan Africa roll past a sea of plastic greenhouses producing fresh fruit and vegetables for supermarkets across Europe and West Africa.

Gunmen abducted secondary school students heading to university entrance examinations and other travellers in central Nigeria’s Benue state, the region’s governor said late on Thursday, the first reported student abduction this year.

Fund cuts its 2026 growth forecast for the continent to 4.3% in its global outlook

Nigeria warns that more than 14,000 communities in 33 states face high flood risks in 2026

Leo has urged the government led by President Paul Biya to root out corruption

A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese man to pay a fine of 1-million shillings (about R127,000) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle live ants out of the country.

Nigeria has ordered a full and independent investigation into a military airstrike on a market that left at least 200 people feared dead, while defending the operation that it said targeted Islamist militants based in an enclave controlled by insurgents.

Police in Tanzania say they are questioning the fiancé of US social media influencer Ashly Robinson, also known by her social media name Ashlee Jenae, who died after an alleged suicide attempt while the couple were on vacation in Zanzibar.

GDP growth likely to be 2.6% amid 'significant contraction in metal ores production'

Presidential discussions also include the return of looted artefacts, addressing global economic inequities and dismantling structural racism

Lai makes trip for 40th anniversary of King Mswati III’s accession and his 58th birthday

Nigeria has convicted nearly 400 Islamist militants after mass trials this week in the capital, Abuja

Kenya dismissed a UN report of sexual abuse by its police in Haiti, citing no evidence.

A sustainability bond aimed at integrating artisanal miners into formal supply chains will be piloted by a Canada-based advisory firm and a mid-tier Zambian copper miner this year, the firms said.

Armed men in Nigeria killed at least 20 people and abducted an unknown number after attacking villages in northwestern Niger state, police and residents said late on Tuesday, the latest violence plaguing the north of the country.