Next time you’re travelling to Africa with a loved one and want to tell them how you feel, use one of these terms – depending on the countr read more...

Mohammed Al Hashemi, Head of Asset Management at Invest AD, discusses the company's Into Africa Report written by The Economist Intelligenc read more...

African economies are growing, and millions have moved into the middle class category within the last decade. And Africans are buying thing read more...

By Dambisa Moyo
Africa is quietly catching up after a period of isolation from the rest of the world between the late 1990s through to 200 read more...

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LIBREVILLE — A Didier Drogba-inspired Ivory Coast and Zambia eased into the semi-finals on day 15 at the Africa Cup of Nations. Chelsea ic read more...

Uganda's government has signed production agreements with the London-based company Tullow oil. The deals pave the way for a $10bn (£6bn) i read more...

If you want to become extremely wealthy over the next five years, and you have a basic grasp of technology, here's a no-brainer: move to Af read more...

AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS FIXTURES:

4 Feb, 16:00 QF1 Zambia v Sudan
4 Feb, 19:00 QF2 Ivory Coast v Equatorial Guinea
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At least 1,000 people were injured on Wednesday in Port Said, even though local team Al Masry beat visitors from Cairo, Al Ahli, Egypt's mo read more...

Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports.

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African banks have grown substantially in the past few years.

Those from South Africa are still the biggest, but they are far from being read more...

The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that with recurrent droughts in the Horn of Africa hun read more...

As global financial markets have been roiled by the eurozone’s worsening debt crisis, Africa has proved a rare bright spot.

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(CNN) -- Known by many as Africa's "father of technology," software pioneer Herman Chinery-Hesse has been spawning innovations for two deca read more...

Web giant says it is 'mortified' to learn that people working for it used Mocality's data in attempt to sell competing product. By Josh Hal read more...

As African economies look for growth in the future, the two key internal strategies emerging are regional integration and harnessing diaspo read more...

This time it’s for real. Samuel Eto’o has been slapped with a 15-match suspension for instigating strike action within the Cameroon nationa read more...

Ghana midfielder Andre Ayew has been named BBC African Footballer of the Year 2011. Ayew pipped Ivorian duo Yaya Toure and Yao Kouassi Ge read more...

Singer Cesaria Evora, dubbed the "Barefoot Diva" for often performing without shoes, has died in her native Cape Verde at the age of 70.
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This Is Africa is a media organisation that brings Africa and the West closer together via African contemporary urban culture. read more...

China has defended its economic and trade relations with African nations. In the first policy paper on the subject, Beijing said China-Afr read more...

Last week saw a number of large private and public players sponsor the first Open Innovation Africa Summit in Kenya’s Rift Valley tourist d read more...

We love African music, or better yet, music from Africa. African music is not a genre. There is a huge diversity of authentic beautiful styles of African music, created and played by a young generation of African artists. We have dubbed this generation the New African Sound. We believe in the potential of this new generation. We see it is being neglected and mistreated by the traditional music in read more...