A 75-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh, India, was murdered for her silver anklets. Her attackers hacked off her legs and left her in a drain to die. This horrific crime echoes similar incidents in ...

Last year, Uber launched its first e-bike fleet in Africa on Nairobi’s streets. In the first six months of this year the number of registered EVs in Kenya tripled. Similar trends are apparent in ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Africa may be set to transform itself from a relative clean-energy laggard into a power-sector pioneer. African power firms have plans to dramatically ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms ... The king wore golden necklaces, rings, bracelets and anklets. He even had a pair of gold castanets attached to his thumb and first finger.

LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Nearly half of Africa's citizens live in a country where governance has worsened over the past decade, as deteriorating security erodes progress, according to a new report.

Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa. By Ruth Maclean Photographs by Yagazie Emezi Ruth Maclean and Yagazie Emezi traveled to Kano, Nigeria’s ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

Africa may not always register on the average traveler's radar, but those who visit have the chance to experience the perfect blend of ancient and modern, wild and urban, and East and West.

Progress in democratic governance in Africa has ground to a halt, according to a new report issued by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The latest edition of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance ...

The 21-year-old daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma is set ... wearing traditional clothing that includes ...

The October 2024 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports a fragile economic recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa, with growth projected at 3% in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2023, driven by increased private consumption ...

AI is being marshalled in multiple fields on the African continent, which contains some of the poorest countries in the world: in Zambia, to help improve medical diagnostics; in Kenya, to enable ...