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Former US President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a strategic partner, the National Basketball Association announced on Tuesday.

The league said Obama will use his stake in NBA Africa to fund the Obama Foundation youth and leadership programs across Africa.

Coronavirus deaths in Africa rose rapidly over the past month, as fatalities surged by 80 percent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has said.

Africa was set to become one of the fastest growing regions for aviation over the next two decades. Then the pandemic hit, slashing global passenger traffic by 66% in 2020, and stalling the pace of growth in Africa.

Growing up in South Africa in the 1950s and '60s, it was inevitable that Penny Siopis' work would be political.

A patient with the rare, but highly infectious Marburg virus disease has died in Guinea, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) statement on Monday. It's the first case of the Ebola-like virus in West Africa.

A man who died in West Africa has tested positive for the Marburg virus -- which originates in bats and has a fatality rate up to 88 percent, the World Health Organization said.

Pop Quiz. Quick. Burkina Faso. A small country in West Africa that won its first-ever Olympic medal or Gov. Cuomo’s 12th accuser? The season premiere of “Hard Knocks” airs Tuesday night. HBO decided to go with the Dallas Cowboys over the Albany...

Positioned between Africa, Europe and Asia, Dubai is open to artistic and cultural influences from around the world. This has led to a vibrant, emerging local arts scene.

Facebook and Google are building undersea internet cables around the world — and are betting that the investments will bring in millions of new customers. Facebook revealed Sunday that it is helping build a 7,500-mile cable connecting countries...

Lion sanctuary, the GG Conservation in Harrismith, South Africa, is locking visitors inside cages to give them a "safe and humane" encounter with lions.

The All Blacks, the New Zealand men's rugby team, have canceled two tests against South Africa and a match against Australia because of Covid-19 travel restrictions.

Suggest a holiday in Africa and most people picture baking hot sun, palm-fringed beaches or herds of wildebeest galloping across the savannah. Few think of skiing.

Watch the terrifying moment a monkey at a zoo in East Africa grabs a young boy’s shirt through a fence. Two-year-old Zakaryah had been feeding the animals fruit that was handed out. Thankfully, the tot’s father, from Houston, Texas, was quick to...

Along the west coast of South Africa, a Border Collie named Jessie traces her nose along a burrow in the sand.

The United States is shipping more than 2.2 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine to South Africa that are set to arrive on Saturday, according to a White House official.

Until a decade ago, the Arabian Peninsula was a blank spot on the map for scientists trying to reconstruct the story of early human evolution and movements out of Africa.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Vaccine doses produced by a plant in South Africa will no longer be exported to Europe following the intervention of South Africa’s government, the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccine envoy said Thursday. South African drug...

Meet the women breaking long-standing taboos -- and empowering themselves and others -- by starting conversations about pleasure and power. Video producer: Adeyemi Michael; video editor: CNN's Corinne Chin.