Cape Town water crisis: Residents urged to turn off toilet taps

Residents will be banned from using more than 50 litres of water a day from next month.

Sugar shortage: ‘Rations are 5kg a month’

Ethiopia is facing a chronic sugar shortage which has led to violent and lethal protests on the streets.

Tourists sexually assaulted in Senegal’s Casamance region

Earlier this month, gunmen killed 14 people in the same restive region of Casamance.

Donald Trump meets Rwanda’s Kagame at the World Economic Forum

The US president and the new head of the African Union both sang the praises of each others' countries.

Cocoa smuggling: ‘We have no choice’

More and more cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast are smuggling their crop into Ghana.

Africa’s week in pictures: 19 – 25 January 2018

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

Cooper Robertson and OMA expand New Museum

Expansion project set to double iconic New York museum’s footprint

2018 WAN AWARDS Launched

Celebrating our 10 year anniversary, this years’ WAN AWARDS will be even bigger, better and further reaching...

Modern humans left Africa much earlier

Researchers identify the remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left Africa.

Swede Thomas Dennerby to coach Nigeria’s women’s team

Thomas Dennerby, who led Sweden to third place at the 2011 Women's World Cup, takes charge of Nigeria's Super Falcons on a three-year deal.