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Aisha got her first call from the terrorists when she was fourteen. It was 2013, and she was at home, in Mogadishu, Somalia, when an...

Katrina Esau is working hard to save the language of her childhood from dying out. At 84, Ms Esau is one of the last three fluent...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, back at the helm after prolonged sick-leave, said he was delighted by the way...

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo — On the verdant savanna of Virunga National Park, a herd of elephants clustered near...

Twice a month, Julius Yebei, 45, embarks on a three-day journey by foot with a herd of donkeys from a livestock market in Bomet County to...

It is now illegal to use, manufacture, or import plastic bags in Kenya, according to a new rule that goes into effect this week....

Tens of thousands of times a year, a technician places a drop of blood on a slide and peers at it under a microscope, searching for...

Ghana launched its first radio astronomy observatory on Thursday in an effort to widen knowledge of African skies, catalyze skills...

Any progress made to liberate South Africa’s black majority since apartheid ended two decades ago looks to have been undone in just five...

Zipline, a Californian drone-delivery startup that has been delivering blood to Rwandan clinics since October, announced today that it’s...

Muhanga, Rwanda The world’s first commercial drone delivery service operates from a hill almost smack dab in the middle of Rwanda. A...

For years, Nairobi has been the cradle of technological innovation in Kenya, and the center of the country’s thriving tech ecosystem,...

On the long list of practical challenges with running a business in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, logistics rarely makes it near to...

If you follow the right accounts for young African tech entrepreneurs on Twitter, it can feel like there’s a never ending debate about...

Two teams fought to a nil-nil draw in regulation, dust puffing around their feet like flint smoke as they ran. The shootout begins after...

Music changes faster than it can be named. And it’s often random circumstances, like the 1977 New York City blackout that spurred hip-hop...

Edward Joseph Karemera, 39, a resident of Buikwe district in central Uganda, has been running a fish trading business between Rwanda and...

In 2012, Kwami Williams was studying at MIT to become a rocket scientist when he took a trip to his home country of Ghana with some of...

Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, will be on a two-day visit to Kenya beginning Monday next...

British American Tobacco (BAT) and other multinational tobacco firms have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa...