It's the time of year for Cape Verde hurricanes.

Diving into a west African delicacy! Houston is home to one of the largest west African populations in the country, and chef Kavachi Ukegbu is teaching us how to make the popular traditional dish, fufu and we're learning where you can try it for yourself.

The U.N. food agency’s regional head says Nigeria is facing “an unprecedented hunger crisis,” and the need for food is rising across west and central Africa while funds are shrinking.

Two of the biggest touring artists right now are headlining this fall's Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.

The Senegalese women’s basketball team has scrapped plans to train in the U.S. for the upcoming AfroBasket tournament in the Ivory Coast next month after several players and team officials had their visas denied.

A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.

Afrobeats megastar Davido is readying his new album.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red across the Western Hemisphere.

A serval, a wild cat native to Africa, was rescued from the garage of a Houston home.

Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what is behind illnesses that have surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people.

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo is threatening peace in the wider region.

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities.

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.

The French military says it has flown out the two Mirage fighter jets it had stationed in Chad, signaling the beginning of its withdrawal of military forces from the central African country.

Congo’s health minister says the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.

President Joe Biden’s long-delayed trip to Africa was overshadowed by his controversial pardon of his son Hunter.

The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children.

Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon.

Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes.

The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months.

The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission.

The young people who make up more than half of Algeria's population are so disenchanted that they may not vote in next month's presidential election.

Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the country, part of efforts to resolve issues causing a rift between an oil refinery owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote and the industry regulator.

Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine.

A reduction in the number of newborn deaths is possible thanks to researchers at Rice University.

United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy.

Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo might more easily spread among people.

More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion.

Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa.

The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have rerouted trade away from a crucial corridor for consumer goods and energy supplies.

Government health advisers say gay and bisexual men at high risk for mpox infection should get vaccinated for the virus even after the current outbreak ends.

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins.

Some employees in government offices in Nigeria walked off their jobs in protest of the growing cost of living due to the removal of gas subsidies, threatening to “shut down” Africa’s largest economy if their demands for improved welfare are not met.

The European Union is growing increasingly concerned about “domino effects” as yet another military coup rocks Africa.

The Kremlin's spokesperson says “deliberate wrongdoing” is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week.

British lawmakers say the U.K. has underestimated the threat posed by the Russian Wagner mercenary group and should ban it as a terrorist organization.

Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production.

Ukraine said its forces shot down Russian drones and cruise missiles targeting the Black Sea port of Odesa in what Moscow called “retribution” for an attack that damaged a crucial bridge to the Crimean Peninsula.

Record ocean heat has invaded Florida with a vengeance.

Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past week in central India’s Kuno National Park.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has opened Africa’s biggest oil refinery, with hopes it will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and become a net exporter of refined petroleum products.

The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international emergency.

A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat.

The devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy which has ripped through southern Africa in a rare second landfall has killed at least 219 people in Malawi and Mozambique since Saturday night, with the death toll expected to continue to rise.

An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to travel to Africa at the end of March as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner for the continent than China is.

Nigeria’s top election official has dismissed concerns that the country’s cash shortage could affect Saturday’s presidential vote.

The International Energy Agency says Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s electricity by 2025.

Mpox is no longer the exploding health crisis that it appeared to be less than six months ago.

As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive what was once one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.

Research in Africa has found a one-time dose of an experimental drug protected adults against malaria for at least six months.

Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, he issued what was widely hailed as a landmark executive order calling for the U.S. government to address the impact of climate change on migration.

From incrementally rising temperatures and seas to an influx of natural disasters, the climate right now certainly isn't the same as it was before the industrial era.

The Spanish charity Open Arms has rescued 372 people seeking to cross the central Mediterranean Sea to Europe in unseaworthy boats in three operations.

A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands.

Once home to one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region has reignited and weary citizens far from the front are pleading for peace.

The San Antonio Zoo is showing appreciation for all doctors, police officers, firefighters, and EMTs across Texas by offering them free admission during September.

Polish officials are marking their nation’s Armed Forces Day holiday alongside the U.S. army commander in Europe and regular American troops, a symbolic underlining of NATO support for members on the eastern front as Russia wages war nearby in Ukraine.

Since May, nearly 90 countries have reported more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox.

Spain is struggling to curtail Europe's leading monkeypox outbreak since the disease spread beyond Africa.

The U.S. has declared a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the outbreak of monkeypox that already has infected more than 7,100 Americans.

Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox.

U.S. health officials say more than 100,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine are on the way to states in the next few days.

British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to new numbers released on Tuesday.

The European Medicines Agency says it will begin reviewing data to decide if a smallpox vaccine made by the pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic might also be authorized for monkeypox, amid a growing outbreak of the disease across the continent.

South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 21 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London Sunday and authorities say most of the victims were minors as young as 13-year-old.

British officials said the monkeypox outbreak in the U.K. is growing across the country mainly among men who are gay or bisexual or other men who have sex with men.

This is not supposed to happen this early!

British health officials will start offering vaccines to men who are gay or bisexual or have sex with men, who are at the highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa.

British health officials have reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country, for a total of 574 cases.

The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee to determine if the monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread beyond Africa warrants being declared a global health emergency.

The U.S. government is buying more monkeypox vaccine as a surprising international outbreak continues to grow.

British health officials say they cannot tell if the spread of monkeypox has peaked in the country.

A Dallas County resident has contracted the first case of monkeypox reported in Texas.

British health officials have reported another 77 cases of monkeypox.

Five European Union countries on the Mediterranean Sea say voluntary solidarity from fellow EU nations on caring for migrants isn't enough.

The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable” and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.

With one of Europe’s largest gay pride celebrations right around the corner, Spain's LGBTQ community is worried that outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase of homophobic sentiment based on misunderstandings of the disease.

A leading World Health Organization adviser says the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries is “a random event” that might be explained by sexual behavior at two recent raves in Europe.

A series of complex challenges, including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso, are obstructing progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall, according to experts involved in the initiative.

The number of coronavirus deaths globally dropped by about 21% in the past week while cases rose in most parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization.

Massachusetts has reported a case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada.

Health authorities in Mozambique have declared a polio outbreak after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province had been paralyzed by the disease.

Portuguese health authorities have confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa.

The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.

The European Commission is downplaying as a “storm in a teacup” an incident last week at a EU-Africa summit in Brussels during which its president was hardly acknowledged by a foreign minister.

A new study suggests that as few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa.

A local government official in Cameroon says at least six people have died in a crush outside a stadium hosting a game at Africa's top soccer tournament.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases globally rose by 20% last week to more than 18 million, marking a slowdown in the surge caused by the omicron variant.

A Massachusetts church that supports immigrants fleeing their countries for their sexual orientation has opened a new home for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers.

China has pledged to donate 600 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to Africa as the world grapples with the unequal distribution of the shots between rich and poor countries.

The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines.

Portuguese health authorities have identified 13 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant among members of a top soccer club, and were investigating possible local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa.

The more than 87,000 personnel in U.N. peacekeeping missions are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism.

An animal recovery group says a large cat native to Africa that escaped from its suburban Detroit home was captured after spending several hours on the lam.

A large cat native to Africa is on the loose in a suburb north of Detroit after escaping from its owner.

Uganda is accelerating its vaccination drive in order to administer 128,000 doses that recently arrived and expire at the end of September.

Archaeologists have uncovered stone tools and hippopotamus bones near ancient lake beds on the Arabian Peninsula.

A U.N.-appointed panel of experts says that Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past the most ambitious threshold set in the Paris accord.

The Dutch public health institute says that coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketed by more than 500% over the last week.