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Justice Malala's new book 'The Plot To Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation' tells the story of how South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition nearly collapsed after the murder of Chris Hani, then head of the African National Congress’s armed wing.

African postgraduate students will no longer be able to bring family members to Britain under reforms to curb migration, closing a popular route particularly favored by Nigerians looking for a route out of the west African country.

Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, visited Nigeria on May 19 and met with tech entrepreneurs, government representatives, and students in Lagos.

London-born Rikki Stein was a friend and then manager of the late Nigerian Afrobeat creator and activist Fela Kuti from 1983 till the artist's death in 1997.

South African authorities are examining evidence a consignment of arms was illegally loaded on a Russian vessel docked at a South African naval base in December by a private company, three sources told Semafor Africa.

The fugitive saga of South African criminal Thabo Bester is eye-catching for its Bonnie and Clyde-style drama, but is really about the dismal state of the country's prisons.

Consumers in key African markets who depend on virtual dollar-denominated debit cards to use online services like Amazon, Spotify, and Apple Music face increasingly strict measures by providers anxious to fight fraud and preserve crucial access to the world’s largest card networks.

Kenya's drive for its citizens to find work in Gulf states risks forcing them into a modern slavery system in which physical abuse is common, warn human rights groups.

Howard W. French, is an award-winning journalist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His latest book is “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War.”

Plans to legalize the lucrative cannabis trade in the southern African Kingdom of Eswatini by overhauling a 100-year-old colonial drug law are being slammed by activists and farmers.

A government-mandated cashless payment system introduced in Ethiopia frustrates motorists and industry watchers as the push to use state-owned telecom giant Ethio Telecom crowds out smaller rivals.

Zimbabwe launched gold-backed virtual coins as a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on Monday in its latest bid to fight currency volatility and contain spiraling inflation.