Traveling on Africa's roads comes with many challenges. The biggest is arriving at your destination safely. The continent is one of the hotspots of global road trauma. Its traffic deaths account for ...

What's the connection between roads and conflict in West Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted shows a close relationship between the two. We are researchers of ...

NAIROBI — Deaths from road accidents in Africa have increased in the past decade, with 250,000 lives lost in 2021 alone, according to the World Health Organization. The deaths and injuries on African ...

Torrential rains and severe flooding across parts of southern Africa have killed more than 100 people in three countries, destroyed thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of ...

Attempts at change failed after a deadly Senegal crash in 2023 A bus veered off the Queen Elizabeth bridge in Johannesburg in February 2015 A relative mourns the 45 victims of a bus accident in ...

Business Insider Africa presents the 10 African countries with the longest road networks. The list is courtesy of Global Firepower. South Africa has the most extensive road network in Africa, covering ...

Africa is one of the fastest-growing continents in the world. The continent has been bedevilled with infrastructure projects but in recent times some African countries are bent on developing by ...

MMAMATLAKALA, South Africa (AP) — An 8-year-old girl was the lone survivor after a bus full of pilgrims making their way to a popular Easter festival in rural South Africa slammed into a bridge on a ...

Lavinia Perumal received funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF), Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the South African Department of Science and ...