Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.

The party that has governed the country since 1966 could lose power as the economy struggles from a slump in demand for diamonds, which made Botswana an African success story.

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin.

After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing.

Paramilitary forces ransacked villages and killed hundreds of people, activists said, hastening calls for the United Nations to deploy a mission to protect civilians.

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.

One of West Africa’s most tolerant societies has recently seen a string of assaults on L.G.B.T.Q. people after several social media influencers exhorted their followers to “hunt” gay men.

Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.

Daniel Chapo of the Frelimo party, which has governed the southern African nation for nearly 50 years, was declared the victor amid violence and widespread allegations of fraud.

The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.

The Sani family in northern Nigeria has six children, more than the parents can afford but fewer than their own parents had. Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa.

Leading supporters of the top opposition presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, were fatally shot in their car following an election marred by allegations of fraud.

It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.

More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims said poverty had driven most to try to collect the spilled gas.

Residents of a nearby town came to scoop up the spilled gasoline, but then the tanker exploded, setting off an inferno — an echo of several similar disasters in recent years.

Supplies of a highly nutritious treatment are running out, according to UNICEF.

Scientists fighting the spread of infectious diseases on the continent have been targeted online by pro-Russian activists, part of an effort to spread fear and mistrust of the West.

She became a literary star in Senegal with novels that addressed women’s issues as the country, newly free from French colonial rule, was discovering its identity.

The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well beyond human flesh.

The killings of 18 members of one family assembled for a gathering last month are among an increasing number of mass shootings in South Africa.