Africa

Libya’s two rival legislative bodies have approved the country’s first unified state budget in more than a decade.

Nigeria has convicted nearly 400 Islamist militants after mass trials this week in the capital, Abuja

To some, they are essential for conserving wildlife, minimising encroachment, and preventing the type of conflict that happens when humans come into contact with wildlife. To others, fences represent exclusion.

A new species of magic mushroom in South Africa and Zimbabwe, now named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata, has allowed us to investigate this question.

Ghana will cut fuel taxes temporarily to ease rising prices

Researchers have long known chimpanzees will attack and kill members of neighbouring chimpanzee groups, but this defied expectations

Brazil has restructured $143m in Mozambican debt to ease repayment terms.

Kenya dismissed a UN report of sexual abuse by its police in Haiti, citing no evidence.

Pope Leo XIV leaves on Monday for a visit to four countries in Africa in an ambitious tour to urge global leaders to address the needs of the continent, where more than a fifth of the world’s Catholics live, on his first major overseas trip of 2026.

Pope Leo leaves on Monday for a visit to four countries in Africa in an ambitious tour to urge world leaders to address the needs of the continent.

A sustainability bond aimed at integrating artisanal miners into formal supply chains will be piloted by a Canada-based advisory firm and a mid-tier Zambian copper miner this year, the firms said.

Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation announced on Wednesday three new oil and gas discoveries with major energy companies from Italy, Spain and Algeria.

Remittance flows may decline if Middle East labour demand drops

Zimbabwe will set export quotas and stricter conditions for lithium shipments.

Armed men in Nigeria killed at least 20 people and abducted an unknown number after attacking villages in northwestern Niger state, police and residents said late on Tuesday, the latest violence plaguing the north of the country.