The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is Africa's largest hydroelectric dam and it’s nearing completion, with incredible satellite images showing the progress made since construction began ...

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Michael M. Phillips writes feature articles for The Wall Street Journal from across the breadth of sub-Saharan Africa, from Somalia to Equatorial Guinea. He joined the ...

Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa with more than 230million people ... Engineers are even planning to build what they call the "Great Wall of Lagos" – an eight kilometres long ...

Africa has the fastest growing, youngest population of any continent. By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around ...

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The METApolis photographic group will open the exhibition “Mon Afrique: Uganda | Bonds of Humanity” in the Blank Wall Gallery ...

As a response, the African Union set up an ambitious continent-wide megaproject in 2007 to address these social-ecological issues and combat poverty. The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree ...

The Great Green Wall initiative launched in 2007 as a plan to plant trees across a large swath of the African continent. The African Union formally began the project in 2007. Originally ...

Africa’s enduring challenges and vast opportunities continues to focus the minds of governments, civil society, and private corporations alike. Drawing on the continent’s complicated history ...

From the wide windows on the second floor of the International African American Museum in Charleston ... A bronze sculpture created by Allan Houser pictures a man hunting buffalo. Steps away stands ...

The now-extinct creatures branched off from African elephants (Loxodonta) around 6 million years ago and split from their ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Sindiswa Mabunda covers the sports landscape in Africa. Football, or soccer—depending on whom you ask—has been deeply ingrained in the ...