WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of ...

China’s President Xi Jinping announced in February 2026 that from 1 May China would be granting zero-tariff treatment to 53 African countries. (That is all of them bar Eswatini, which supports Taiwan.

The latest clash between the two countries illustrates the depths to which relations have sunk and the struggle to forge a new path forward. By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg Less than a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised West African leaders a pivot from aid to trade during a White House meeting Wednesday as the region reels from the impact of sweeping U.S. aid cuts.

Around the African continent, there is a saying: “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.” For Nigerian artist and filmmaker Malik Afegbua, that loss is not just a metaphor. “I don’t know ...

The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa has been summoned to explain his criticism, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday, as a diplomatic rift continues over foreign policy that the Trump ...

“IT’S A CRAZY situation right now,” Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, tells The Economist in an interview on March 12th in his office in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. He has returned after a ...

Morocco handed Cup of Nations title after appeal over final outcome Senegal walkoff means they forfeit match, says CAF Appeal Board Senegal to appeal decision to Court of Arbitration for Sports CAPE ...

A digger at a cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2016. The cobalt is sold to a Chinese company. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images China’s economic ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from ...

The restrictions on half the continent have been called racist and unfair. “We don’t come to the United States because we’re running away,” one N.B.A. fan said. By Ruth Maclean Ruth Maclean, who has ...