What is the situation in Africa? Where is it safe, and in which countries is the situation deteriorating? The answer to this is provided by the Global Peace Index (GPI), published annually by the ...

Some 40,000 people have been killed and nearly 13 million displaced, including to other countries, according to U.N. agencies.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

THE World Bank has sounded the alarm in its newly released country policy and institutional assessment (CPIA) report for Sub-Saharan Africa, warning that stagnant policy progress is failing to ...

The World Bank on Thursday urged governments in Africa to improve the delivery of essential services to promote inclusive, ...

Welcome to our live blog covering the latest developments from across the continent. Follow real-time updates on political ...

A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 ...

From South Africa to Morocco, these are the best cities in Africa and the Middle East according to T+L readers in our annual ...

The World Bank downgraded its economic growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa as a raging civil war in Sudan stalled activity and held back the entire region.. Sub-Saharan Africa will likely grow ...