Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales have returned to court to appeal for the dismissal of the long-running corruption case against them

Trump hosted the leaders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in an attempt to cement a peace deal to end their decades-long conflict.

The five-year, $2.5 billion agreement with Kenya replaces a patchwork of previous health agreements that had traditionally been run by the U.S. Agency for International Development for decades until the Trump administration dismantled it earlier this year.

The country’s interior minister said the situation was under control after a “small group of soldiers launched a mutiny,” but the president had yet to make a public statement.

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The penguins perished by the thousands for a simple, agonizing reason: a lack of food. In two key colonies off the coast of South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds probably starved to death over an eight-year period because of a collapse of their food supplies, according to a study published Thursday.

African gray parrots are all over the place on TikTok, and no wonder. As Rene Ebersol writes at Rolling Stone, they "have the intelligence of young children and are renowned for their freakish ability to mimic human speech"—hence all those popular videos of the birds doing just that.

The South African rand was steady in early trade on Thursday, ahead of the release of current account data by the central bank while global investors await data for clearer cues on the Federal Reserve's interest rate outlook.