VEGOILS Palm up over 1%, hitting 2-week high on rival oil, crude oil strength Malaysian palm oil futures surged more than 1% on Wednesday, hitting a two-week high, as stronger rival edible oils ...

The 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2024. It identifies key policy trends in Sub-Saharan Africa that made a difference in ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

The Africa Program analyzes key trends shaping Africa’s present, future, and the continent’s evolving role globally. By centering African knowledge and agency, the program conducts forward-thinking ...

Many names but one amazing coat, the African wild dog is playful, ruthless, & social. Learn about these African painted dogs with NG Expeditions. Read about these fascinating creatures below, then see ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

June 30, 2026 • The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 300 people, putting it on track to become one of the deadliest incidents of Ebola in recent history. We go ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

An introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara to the Cape. Africa - Overview of climate zones and biomes. videoAfrica - Overview of climate zones and biomes An ...

What was precolonial Africa like? A number of powerful kingdoms developed in precolonial West Africa. They each had their own diverse cultures, art, histories and religions. The Kingdom of Benin The ...

July 5, 2026 • This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Michael Carter, Jr., a fifth-generation farmer in Virginia and author of Africulture ...

I hope it’s clear by now I love facts, especially those that surprise — even shock — us out of our assumptions. Don’t get me wrong. All of us, including scholars in various fields, have so much ...