Ivory Coast and Belgium sign landmark film co-production treaty at Abidjan’s SICA 2025, boosting African cinema’s global ...

Africa Corps, which is believed to be run by the Russian defence ministry, is stepping up its presence and filling the gap ...

Take a world tour of monsters, from vampires in Serbia and giants in Cornwall to festivals of dragons in Bavaria and ...

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

Passport Chocolate-powered vehicle on the road to Timbuktu iStockphoto.com We’ve all heard about cars powered by wacky biofuels, including switchgrass and leftover French fry oil.

The Wagner Group has announced it is withdrawing from Mali following what it called "the completion of its main mission" in the West African country. The Russian mercenary group has been operating ...

Former Jamaican prime minister PJ Patterson is calling for an unprecedented economic alliance between Africa and the ...

Then on Monday, the same group - Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) - said it targeted the military in the historic city of Timbuktu, with residents reporting hearing gunfire and explosions.

Yet for propitious economic partnerships to be fostered, the continent’s politics have to remain expedient to Western interests. In much of Africa, the reverse is true.

With the rise of a paramilitary force that analysts say is controlled by the Kremlin, Russia is openly expanding its state military footprint in Africa, after years of distancing itself from ...

Although symbolically visible in some places across the continent, Turkey’s presence remains a work in progress.