Born in Senegal in 1945 to Lebanese Shiite parents, he rose to become a confidant of a generation of African leaders – from Omar Bongo in Gabon to Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and ...

Skit maker Mr Macaroni has broken his silence amid reactions that have trailed a trending video of children reenacting his ...

His death at the age of 62 has left family, friends and fans of Nigeria's film industry Nollywood across Africa in mourning. He burst onto the scene in 2004 with the movie Mr Ibu, which tells the ...

carried out in 15 countries by the South African Ichikowitz Family Foundation, back up Mr Oni's pessimism. Young Nigerians have the most negative opinion in the whole continent about the direction ...

After a celebrated, decades-long career as one of North America’s most reproductively successful members of an endangered ...

African countries can access the money in the French treasury when they like. Mr Di Maio said France was using this system to finance French public debt. But a French treasury official told BBC ...

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

Mr. Biden had long pledged to visit Africa as president, but without specific plans to follow through. In May, the president said he would visit the continent in February, after he was reelected.

Mr. Greedy is survived by his lifelong mate, African penguin No. 832, known as Mrs. Greedy. She is now the oldest penguin in the Maryland Zoo’s colony at 33. The couple both came to the Maryland ...

Recounted in Bourgi’s newly-published memoirs They know that I know it all - My life in Françafrique, the anecdote says everything about the money-grabbing and mutual dependence that for so long ...

After a celebrated, decades-long career as one of North America’s most reproductively successful members of an endangered species, African penguin No. 821 - known fondly as Mr. Greedy - has passed ...