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A former Miss South Africa contestant hounded over a nationality row was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria on Saturday local time, capping a difficult few weeks for the beauty queen.

The Royal House of Denmark announced last week that the future king, 18, will travel to East Africa for an "extended stay" until December.

NBC News reported Thursday that Biden is also considering October trips to Germany and at least one stop in sub-Saharan Africa.

Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali in July were Russian war veterans who survived tours in Ukraine, Libya and Syria, according to interviews with relatives...

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The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

A climate crisis in southern Africa has triggered the government of Zimbabwe to allow for the mass slaughter of elephants, according to a locally based conservation group.

A University of North Carolina student was found dead after she went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape Town, authorities said Monday.

President Biden confirmed Tuesday that he will visit Angola next month, fulfilling his pledge to visit Africa during his presidency. The retiring 81-year-old-president will make a six-day trip abroad from Oct. 10-15 — with a stopover in Germany on...

Almost 1000 tourists struck down by a mysterious stomach bug are taking legal action against luxury hotels while staying on the West African island country of Cape Verde.

Netflix takes viewers to North Africa in this new romance.

In January last year, German biotech company BioNTech acquired African AI startup InstaDeep for over $550 million, a deal finalized in July of the same year. Instadeep, whose exit is currently the largest from Africa, has been operating under the...

As calls for urgent climate action persist, technologies to help remove the heat-trapping greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are also emerging globally. In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup is leading the efforts. Octavia,...

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are the top selling product in 60% of all Ray-Ban stores throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to Upload VR. The detail came from EssilorLuxottica CFO Stefano Grassi, who revealed during the eyewear...

The Smiley family from Beacon, New York began documenting their move to Zambia in 2021.

Whitney Houston was the first major Western artist to perform in a post-apartheid South Africa in 1994, and the first of her three dates is captured in “The Concert for a New South Africa [Durban],” a film that will be playing in select theaters...

“Our dear brother and friend Beau Shroyer was killed in an act of violence while serving Jesus in Angola, Africa.”

African fintech Moniepoint just closed $110 million in new financing, and it has landed Google’s Africa Investment Fund as a new investor. The Series C round was led by Development Partners International’s African Development Partners (ADP) III...

"I got floods of tears, the first one I got tears, so I had to shave it off," the royal dad said during his visit to Cape Town, South Africa.

Demand for HR-tech solutions in Africa is growing, and Senegal’s Socium is out to tap the opportunity in French-speaking countries on the continent. Socium has since 2021 built HR solutions that target users within the 21 countries of Francophone...