Explore the life of Pierce, the African crested porcupine with powerful quills.

A growing middle class is increasingly mobile — and changing African ideas about leisure, travel and even the continent itself. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. A couple of years ago at a ...

Two years ago, Nigerian pastor Jerry Eze arrived in London to lead a prayer conference at Twickenham — the world’s largest rugby stadium — and immediately wondered whether he had picked the wrong ...

Prince Harry has stepped away from the board of African Parks a year after an internal investigation found that some of the conservation charity’s rangers had abused indigenous people in one of the ...

Over the coming decade, Africa will face major challenges as the legitimacy and sovereignty of its states come under threat. Some of the continent’s governments will become highly dependent on ...

There can be no denying the globalization of the Olympic Games over the last quadrennial. In 2022, six African athletes competed in the Winter Olympics in Beijing, representing five nations. Four ...

Addis Ababa—Ministers of Health from the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region today opened the Seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Addis ...

The United States is the world’s largest market for African storytelling content — accounting for 8.7% of global demand — followed by the U.K., South Africa, Canada, France, Brazil and China. That’s ...

The African Union held its 39th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2026. The two-day assembly produced the usual number of decisions and declarations ...