African countries should weigh the cost of meeting their own climate targets before selling carbon credits abroad, or risk being left with the most expensive emissions-cutting projects, a United Natio...

Mauritius, best known for its white-sand beach resorts, has extended a curfew for a further three nights, after the Indian Ocean island nation witnessed the worst unrest since 1999 earlier in the week...

South Africa called for larger and more predictable replenishment of global-climate funds and a stronger focus on adaptation funding ahead of the COP31 international summit in Turkey.

Trees in Africa’s vast Congo Basin are being cut down at a faster rate even as deforestation in other tropical regions slows.

Black-owned businesses across five of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economies are falling $209 billion short of the capital need for expansion, hindering economic growth and limiting financial inclusio...

Kayode Emmanuel was parked outside the biggest hotel in Nigeria’s capital, the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, waiting for ride requests on his Uber Technologies Inc. app. When none came, he did what many Nig...

African nations are calling for Ukrainians to return citizens in its prisoner of war camps after they were caught fighting for Russia.

A significant majority of South Africa’s registered voters are women.

Madagascar’s government gave the country’s power and water utility permission to flout usual tender procedures and buy diesel generators directly from a Russian company as ties between the island and ...

Growing numbers of orcas and whale sharks have started appearing off the coast of Mozambique, in an unusual development that’s coincided with the formation of the El Niño weather cycle.

The United Nations selected six countries across Africa and Asia to receive support aimed at helping them extract more value from their critical-mineral deposits seen as crucial to the global energy t...

Companies from the US, the largest contingent as recently as eight years ago, were largely absent.

Botswana won’t risk its financial wellbeing when it increases its investment in De Beers, the world’s biggest diamond company, Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe said.

Businesses are imploring South Africa’s government to help avert a “gas cliff” in as little as two years.

Kropz Plc, the phosphate producer backed by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, said it will cut its own staff as it won’t renew its operating and maintenance agreement with contractors at its operation in S...

South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s near decade-long backing for phosphate producer Kropz Plc has backfired, with the company announcing the restructuring of its sole operating asset and one o...

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Survivors of one of the defining events of the anti-apartheid struggle, the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, and their dependents have applied for permission to institute a class action against South Africa...

South Africa’s once-mighty defense force is in a dire state.

Pollution from Sasol Ltd.’s flagship Secunda plant has been tied to about 1,000 deaths a year, a study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air shows.

The Nature Conservancy said it had reached an agreement worth about $200 million to promote conservation in Gabon that will help preserve its forests and provide economic opportunities to communities ...

Paramount Group, the South African-founded defense company, said a widening rift between the US and its European allies is opening up new markets, including with NATO members.

Grants are being dispensed to as many as 230,000 Malawians.

Africa’s adoption of solar panels as an electricity source will rise 45% this year as the use of the clean power technology broadens across the continent, Ember projects.

Some of the world’s biggest investors have signaled that they object to the share structure of Prosus NV and its parent company Naspers Ltd. and how the companies pay their executives and board member...

The City of Johannesburg is stuck in a “debt doom loop,” because its failure to collect outstanding obligations has forced it to raise tariffs to the point where fewer and fewer customers are willing ...

A buildup of dead sardines, likely due to a virus outbreak off South Africa’s coast, slashed electricity generation from the continent’s only nuclear power plant.

New research shows the country’s peatlands are at least four times larger than previously thought

Botswana’s government stopped eight citizens from being recruited into the Russian military at airports in the country, South Africa and Ethiopia.

Research suggests the continent could host more undiscovered carbon-capturing peatlands.

Angola’s peatlands, which regulate water flow in southern Africa’s biggest river systems and store climate-warming carbon, are at least four times larger than initially thought, a new study showed.

The nation’s president appoints 10 allies to the senate.

A group of companies including TotalEnergies SE warned that Madagascar’s requisition of the island’s only oil-storage facility could disrupt fuel supplies by preventing tankers from unloading.

Some of nation’s wealthiest businessmen hold senior positions in the ruling party.

A lavish Harare wedding attended by the president shows the political clout wielded by tycoons.

Madagascar expects the arrival of a shipment of diesel to be used by the state power company, ending a quarter-century hold on oil product imports by a group of private companies.

In late May, Zimbabwe’s one percent gathered at a polo club on the outskirts of Harare to celebrate the marriage of one of their own.

The Nature Conservancy, the US-based conservation nonprofit that’s led a number of debt-for-nature swaps, said it’s expanding a team that’s overseeing a portfolio of more than $4 billion in nature-bas...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is looking for investors to buy packages of insured loans, as it explores new ways to leverage its balance sheet.

Funding is being sought for more studies on a key carbon sink.

To fill the knowledge gap, scientists hope to fund 1,000 African researchers to pursue PhDs on the basin, which is as important for the planet as the Amazon.

Anglo American Plc is discussing a deal worth about $1 billion to sell its De Beers diamond business, just a fraction of what the one-time diamond monopoly was once worth.

Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, plans to sell products in Madagascar and targets connecting 1.5 million customers by 2030.

Perceptions that China is the foreign power that wields the most positive influence on Africa’s youth have strengthened, a biennial survey showed, while nations ranging from Germany and the UK to Indi...

A divide in governance between South Africa’s two biggest cities has opened up a gap of at least $12 billion in commercial property values between Cape Town, the leader, and Johannesburg.

Madagascar sits on the Mozambique Channel, through which a third of the world’s crude oil passes.

The image of “Afrophobia” spurred by expulsions and protests is harming the country’s image.

A group of companies including TotalEnergies SE warned that Madagascar’s plans to nationalize fuel imports could put them and their customers at risk of trading and using sanctioned oil.

The Private Infrastructure Development Group, which is owned by some of the world’s richest countries, aims to set up local currency guarantee firms across Africa and Asia with a combination of equity...

The waters shared by bathers and great whites off Plettenberg Bay, one of South Africa’s most popular beach resorts, are going unmonitored during the peak shark season when the world’s biggest predato...