As Pope apologizes for slavery, remember it was African countries that started slave trade

During a 1998 trip to Uganda, President Bill Clinton provided what many historians considered to be the first apology by the ...
Opinion

Shifting from fossil fuels will fail without funding for African industry and energy infrastructure

Moving to renewable energy will fail unless wealthy nations help finance cleaner energy systems, industrialisation and local mineral processing across the African continent. This was the argument that ...
Al Jazeera

Africa Day 2026: Has the continent achieved true liberation?

When African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa on May 25, 1963 to found the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the occasion ...
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These are the most common surnames in every African country

Millions of people living on the African continent share surnames, just like in other continents in the world. Africa is a very heterogeneous continent; it is not a country, as some Westerners think.
CNN

Trump’s tariffs are sending African countries into China’s hands

Africa is adjusting to the new reality of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with countries on the continent facing some of the highest export charges. But what could become a crisis is an ...

Africa’s capital must stay home to plug its financing gap: how it could be done

The same European and US institutions then reinvest the same capital back to Africa at a high return for themselves. They ...