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South Africa will clamp down on captive lion breeding after a review panel concluded the industry risked the conservation of wild lions and harmed tourism, the environment minister said on Sunday.

Footage from inside a cash-in-transit van shows how a security team responded to an attempted heist by robbers wielding AK-47s in South Africa. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, between South America and Africa, lies the island of St Helena.

A toddler laid to rest with their head on a pillow in a cave in eastern Kenya is thought to be the oldest human burial ever found in Africa.

What's happening in India is being felt across Africa as India bans all vaccine exports to COVAX, the global vaccine alliance many African countries rely on. Africa is scrambling to make up for the shortage. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

Babatunde Onakoya, 26, founded Chess in Slums Africa in 2018 after chess aided his rise from his own deprived childhood in Lagos.

Violence from militant Islamist terrorists has spiked in Burkina Faso, causing global concern. Two Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen were killed after the group was attacked by terrorists. CNN's Cyril Vanier reports.

The policy, which still needs to be made into law, would effectively end the world’s legal lion bone trade.

Many countries in Africa got their vaccine rollouts right but are now fearful of becoming the next India as supplies dwindle

The Grammy-winning rapper is expected to sign with Rwanda Patriots BBC of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), ESPN confirmed on Monday

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that if wealthy nations hogged COVID-19 shots while millions in poor countries died waiting for them it would amount to “vaccine apartheid”. South Africa and India have been pushing for a...

Some countries in Africa have been relying on a vaccine-sharing initiative to help vaccinate the population. However, supplies are beginning to run out and the World Health Organization says it could open a door to a new wave of Covid-19 infections....

Restauranteur Piers Proctor-Irwin has spent the majority of the past year surrounded by empty chairs and tables. Situated in a suburb on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, his restaurant The Local Kitchen Co. shuttered after the South...

This thriller sees a detective find common ground with a vigilante killer targeting the perpetrators of a massive human trafficking ring.

In the 1800s, when blood sports were more socially acceptable, the term "Big Five" was coined to refer to the lion, rhino, buffalo, elephant and leopard -- the animals that trophy hunters in Africa considered the most dangerous to hunt on foot.

Axios reporter Jonathan Swan tells CNN about former President Donald Trump's "off-the-books" bid to remove troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Germany and Africa in his final weeks in office after he'd lost the election.

The force is 10 times the size of the covert elements of the CIA, comes with a cost of more than $900 million, and engages about 130 private companies in operations in locales like the Middle East and Africa, the report said. 

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman has gained international recognition for her powerful portraits against surreal, bleached-out landscapes.

A pregnant woman trying to make it through the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya. A Tunisian cemetery with the bodies of irregular migrants who tried to flee their country. A group of Senegalese teenagers addicted to using social media.

China is once again causing controversy in Africa for doing something that, in theory, should win praise -- giving away money.