Africa
2 days ago
Tough laws targeting homosexual acts or abortion in African nations are often preceded by lobbying from American hard-liners. Often well-financed, these networks campaign against equality and diversity.
4 days ago
If all goes well, Nigerian singer Ebaide Joy will be be the first African woman to ride from Kenya to Nigeria on a motorcycle. DW met up with her just before she set off on her adventure.
9 Mar
From Kim Kardashian's Balenciaga dress with the label on, to Victoria Beckham on crutches and Saint Laurent's see-through tops, fashion journalist Louis Pisano speaks to Eve Jackson about the good mix of glamour and reality at Paris Fashion Week.
5 Mar
African and global investors, researchers and other development partners with an up-to-date evidence based assessment of Africa’s recent macroeconomic performance and short-to-medium outlook and dynamic global economic developments.
3 Mar
Global shipping companies are diverting valuable cargo around the African continent to avoid Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. But can coastal African nations seize the opportunity presented by the extra merchant traffic?
26 Feb
However, in recent decades the country has also begun coming to terms with some of its colonial-era atrocities, including in Tanzania and Namibia. Germany's mass killings of Nigeria's Indigenous Herero and Nama people in the early 1900s has been referred to by many historians as the first genocide of the 20th century.
17 Feb
Global shipping companies are diverting valuable cargo around the African continent to avoid Houthi strikes in the Red Sea. But can coastal African nations seize the opportunity presented by the extra merchant traffic?
10 Feb
The Wagner Group used to serve Russia's interests in Africa — unofficially. But with Wagner's collapse, Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a new Africa Corps, with soldiers officially deployed to Burkina Faso.
3 Feb
The prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House after the US presidential election in November has some Africans worried about possibly stricter migration policies and less cooperation with the continent.
3 Feb
Afrobeats sensation Davido, ahead of his concert in Paris on his "Timeless Tour".
29 Jan
Pope Francis said he understands the opposition to same-sex blessings among priests in Africa, saying he knows "homosexuality" is considered "bad" in many societies and cultures there.
28 Jan
The Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group is likely to strengthen its activities in Africa despite the death of its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, analysts predict. The group's operations may remain under new management or be subsumed into another Russian paramilitary group. But where on the continent does the group operate, and what does it gain by being in Africa?