Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died Monday, is being remembered in Africa for peacemaking, supporting the fight against AIDS and sounding the alarm against war abuses. Cameron Hudson, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa ... Read More

Township residents collect water from a municipal water tanker in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa A new report by the United Nations has warned that more than 100 million “extremely poor” people across Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change that ... Read More

A floundering economy, party in-fighting and ceaseless corruption allegations are plaguing South Africa's ruling African National Congress. The nationwide local elections on November 1 will test whether loyalty to the party that brought an end to apartheid will prevail or ... Read More

FILE - Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is pictured at the international airport, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, June 17, 2021. Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his previous party ... Read More

Union leaders have angrily reacted to the Zimbabwean government’s announcement Sunday that workers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer be allowed at work and will not be paid. This is seen as part of efforts to ... Read More

A statue of a cameraman stands at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) headquarters in Ouagadougou, on Oct. 14, 2021. The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou returns to Burkina Faso this weekend after being canceled last year due to the ... Read More

The United States is donating 17 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union, bringing the total American donation to the continent to 67 million doses. The U.S. previously donated 50 million doses to the AU, ... Read More

Riya William Yuyada is seen in a photo posted Aug. 21, 2021, on her Twitter (@theonlyriya1)\ A South Sudan women's rights activist has been named one of three winners of an award given by Amnesty International USA recognizing women who the ... Read More

A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff member registers migrants inside a detention centre at Ain Zara, in Tripoli, Libya, October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed Hundreds of migrants in Libya's Ain Zara detention centre live in basic conditions, sleeping ... Read More

From left to right: Nobel peace laureate Layman Gbowee, Julienne Lusenge, winner of 2021 Aurora Prize and Mary Robinson, former Irish President, Rome, Oct. 9, 2021. (S.Castelfranco/VOA) Human rights activist Julienne Lusenge of the Democratic Republic of Congo was recently proclaimed ... Read More