The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...

Businesses in the Kingdom of Lesotho are worried about the fate of the trade agreement between the United States and Africa - the African Growth and Opportunity Act - which is up for renewal this ...

The South African ambassador who was expelled from the United States and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration was given a hero’s welcome on his return home Sunday, when ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they ...

African football icons Mohamed Salah and Achraf Hakimi appear set to feature at the 2026 World Cup as Egypt and Morocco have built commanding leads in their qualifying groups. However, reigning CAF ...

African football icons Mohamed Salah and Achraf Hakimi appear set to feature at the 2026 World Cup as Egypt and Morocco have built commanding leads in their qualifying groups. However, reigning ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Ayo Adeyinka, founder and director of London-based Tafeta gallery, visited the Venice Biennale last ...

U.S.A.I.D. The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s aid cuts. The United ...

Neapolis was once a thriving and strategically significant port city in the Roman world, yet it remains absent from many historical texts of the period. While archaeologists had long suspected its ...