Africa

China says its initiative to build ports and other infrastructure across Asia and Africa, paid for with Chinese loans, will boost trade

The first known human infection was in 1970, in a 9-year-old boy in a remote part of Congo.

Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, and Britain announced two more new cases

India on Sunday said it would keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries at the government level despite restrictions announced two days earlier.

South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.

Russia had deployed them to under-the-radar military operations across at least half a dozen African countries.

A bus carrying worshipers traveling to an Easter pilgrimage in mountainous eastern Zimbabwe plunged into a gorge, killing 35 people in the early hours of Friday.

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that Russia’s war against Ukraine was weakening the economic prospects

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region — known as the “breadbasket of the world.”

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia.