Africa

Covid cases in Africa are doubling every 18 days as the highly contagious delta variant rips through the continent.

Travelers regularly search for activities in New York, Paris and Rome — but the world’s most popular online travel search is in none of those places.

Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and deaths are increasing

A full year after the COVID-19 shut-downs began, a lot of people are still trying to get refunds for vacations they couldn’t take. Jim and Joyce Silberberger were afraid they would never see the tens of thousands of dollars they had paid for a trip of a lifetime. The couple planned a special trip to Africa for May 2020 in…

A Massachusetts couple was looking forward to their trip to Africa, but after it was canceled, with the $30,000 they paid on the line, they reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds.

Reports of new Covid cases have decreased in every region of the world except Africa, where weekly cases jumped 44% while fatalities rose 20%.

What’s the soul of soul food and where does it come from? In the new Netflix series “High on the Hog,” author and historian Jessica B. Harris and Stephen Satterfield talk about the connections between the African diaspora and foods in the American South in particular. The series follows those food traditions through the slave trade, Reconstruction and into the...

Maya Horgan Famodu has become a trailblazer in Africa’s venture capital industry, but her path to success hasn’t been straightforward. 

Genius Sports’ new deal with the NBA’s league in Africa could allow the sports data company to test second- and third-screen viewing presentations.

The world could be facing a shortage of an underappreciated yet crucial commodity in the years ahead: sand.

The CEO of Nigerian fintech Flux says dropping out of college helped to pave the way for the launch of a new crypto payments company.

Solar and wind energy could replace fossil fuels entirely to become the world’s power source by 2050, a new report has claimed.

A top military commander says that Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has been killed on the battlefield in a fight against rebels

Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Pricepally Chief Executive Luther Lawoyin spoke to CNBC Make It about what the lessons he’s learned as a founder.

President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed the new chief of the World Trade Organization, becoming the first woman and African to ever lead the institution.

Ugandans head to the polls on Thursday as singer-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine looks to deny incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a sixth term.

Winniefred Akrello and Celestine Mugisha have a lot to smile about this Christmas. The Chicago couple will be spending their first Christmas together in the U.S. after spending four years apart. The couple spent just one night together as a married couple in Uganda before Mugisha was told to pack his bags for his resettlement in America. The day...

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