GENEVA, Dec. 14 (UNHCR) - One day after the international community reaffirmed its strong support for the 1951 Refugee Convention, African delegates met Friday to develop new policies for the ...

Oil-producing African countries, operating under the aegis of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO), have set up an African Energy Bank (AEB) with an initial capitalization of $5 billion ...

Experts have called on African universities to deliberately prepare students to understand the continent’s political, governance, and development realities, arguing that Africa’s challenges can only ...

DP William Ruto (left) speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo:PSCU) Davos, Switzerland: Deputy President William Ruto has told African leaders to stop parading their ...

Further south, the Cape Town’s Maker Faire had its debuted this year. Its founder Omar-Pierre Soubra, a Frenchman living in the US. Maker Faire Africa is independent of Maker Faire US and seeks to ...

After months of diplomatic impasse and military advances of the Alliance Fleuve Congo/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a diplomatic breakthrough occurred in ...

Local earthenware associated with enslaved African populations in the Americas, variously called Colono-Ware, Afro-Caribbean Ware. Yabbas, and Criollo ware, has received considerable attention from ...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The desert states of the Gulf are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security. With their farming projects in some of the poorest African nations ...