At the Brooklyn Museum, his defining portraits of Mali’s citizens in the 1950s show them breaking free of colonial domination yet still tethered to their cultural history.

And it has expanded a "circular migration" programme that gives West Africans short-term visas to come to Spain for limited periods of seasonal work, mainly in agriculture, and then return. These issues were at the heart of the agenda when Sanchez visited Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania in August last year.

In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the tiny country of Lesotho in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents.

South Africa has dropped in the Henley Passport Index after losing visa-free access to a fellow African nation.

The South African rand was steady in early trade on Thursday as safe havens like gold - which renewed a record high - became appealing amid trade frictions between Beijing and Washington.

The installation encompasses four galleries that tell the story of African American history chronologically from 1840 to 1986.

In 2021, the billionaire donated $20 million to the same organization, dedicated to preserving U.S. sites associated with Black history.

The South African rand held steady on Wednesday, as investors bought into riskier assets following dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell who left the door open to further U.S. interest rate cuts.