A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...

Millions more people will face hunger in the coming months if the conflict in the Middle East is not resolved soon, the UN has warned. The price of energy, which instantly affects the cost of ...

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has unveiled plans to build another 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery in East Africa, signalling an ambitious expansion of his refining footprint beyond Nigeria as ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The energy shock from the Iran war is boosting ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. This “necking” process marks an advanced ...

Toyota is investing $1.9 billion to build three new plants in Maharashtra, India, aiming for export production.

Forget the old image of humans marching out from the savannah. A coastal origin story from the southern Cape places women, ...

Rows of green tobacco plants stretched towards the bush in a vast field of a crop that has rebounded to record levels in ...

East African countries are discussing plans for a joint oil refinery at Tanzania's port of Tanga ​modelled on Nigeria's ...

The three facilities involve a combined investment of around Y300bn ($1.90bn).