Gabonese citizens are voting on a new constitution with many positive elements. Many experts say that if the referendum is ...

Microfinance has become essential for giving unbanked people access to financial services. However, the rise in unpaid loans is threatening the stability of many institutions, especially in fragile ...

Countries in the global South have attempted to press the United States for better engagement in multilateral forums. But ...

ECOWAS member state transport ministers adopted a regional plan to cut the cost of air travel in West Africa to eliminate air ...

Norway's development minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim on what her country is getting right and what the world is doing wrong ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Relations between South Africa and the United States will be more ‘practical’ with less solidarity, says South African ...

French-Algerian journalist and writer Kamel Daoud’s novel ‘Houris’, which sheds light on Algeria’s civil war, has won ...

What is done cannot be undone,” Anne Frank wrote in her eponymous diary some 80 years ago, “but one can prevent it happening again.” I had occasion to reflect on ...

South Africa's government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North ...

Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...