A coordinated drive to scale up malaria diagnostics, bed nets, and rapid treatment is now easing Africa’s child mortality burden, according to researchers who say the continent has entered its most aggressive phase of malaria control yet.

The global push for a sustainable blue economy now hinges on Africa’s vast inland and coastal water systems, prompting investors to channel capital into the continent’s aquaculture and treat it as critical infrastructure to strengthen global food security.

A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the continent's literary authority.

As the Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) marks its 85th anniversary, it spotlights its journey from a wartime information bureau to the media lineage that now includes Sputnik, revealing decades of expanding news coverage and cooperation with Africa in a fast-changing global information landscape.

From unexpected victories to fearless displays against established football powerhouses, African teams have used the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup to showcase the depth of talent developing across the continent, prompting experts to argue that many more promising players remain undiscovered.

A new study has found that today's leading large language models largely exclude indigenous African oral knowledge because they are trained primarily on digitized, Western-centric datasets.

Africa's fastest-growing social media market covers fewer than 20 of the continent's vast linguistic diversity, leaving creators and influencers posting in Swahili, Acholi, Igbo, Wolof, Kiswahili, or Amharic at the mercy of moderation algorithms that were never built to understand or fail to recognize or recommend them.

A new artificial intelligence platform developed in Nigeria is learning to master the tonal and phonetic complexities of African languages, enabling it to compose and sing authentic-sounding music for the first time.

Across Africa, officials are pushing reforms to strengthen IP systems and boost monetization or commercialization of innovation, aiming to move economies beyond raw material exports and into higher-value knowledge-based industries.

A growing body of evidence suggests that modern medicine’s evidence base is geographically narrow in ways that are no longer defensible. Africa remains largely peripheral to the clinical trial ecosystem that determines how drugs, devices, and treatment guidelines are developed.