Though human rights groups call it sportswashing, analysts say Formula 1’s choice of Rwanda to host its first African race since the 1990s can become a watershed moment for the continent’s sports industry – if it can deliver lasting development

Africa’s top public health agency and Congolese officials say $700 million in Ebola aid is unaccounted for

Formula 1 will “polish the image of an authoritarian leader” if it goes ahead with plans to hold an African Grand Prix in Rwanda, the foreign minister of neighboring Congo, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, has said

The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war

Formula 1 has confirmed Rwanda will host a race from “the early 2030s” when the series returns to Africa after about 40 years

The Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly to new hot spots where patients have little or no support

Kenya’s Department for Correctional Services has introduced chess across the country’s prisons since 2024, in one of the most prominent institutional carceral chess programs in Africa

On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging global organization controlled by World War II powers

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