Africa's soccer body issued fines worth more than $1 million and banned Senegal's coach and Senegalese and Morocco players Wednesday following a shambolic African Cup soccer final this month.

A deadly car crash in Nigeria involving former boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two minibus accidents in South Africa have highlighted Africa's poor road safety record

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture.

By Kopano Gumbi, Anathi Madubela and Sfundo Parakozov PRETORIA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's central bank kept its main lending rate unchanged at 6.75% on Thursday, saying it wanted to see inflation expectations fall further and citing potential price pressures including electricity tariffs.

The World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation are channeling new climate finance into Africa’s fast-growing solar sector to boost energy access, strengthen agriculture, and support a cleaner path to economic development.

Despite these challenges, Brislin remains optimistic, outlining his vision for the Church as a crucial “bridge-builder” in a divided society and pointing to Pope Francis’s planned 2026 visit to Africa as a powerful message of affirmation and a call for peace.

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of the landscape (the inland Karoo Basin) where most of the dinosaurs roamed.