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African economies, hit simultaneously by Covid-19 and low commodity prices, are facing a deadly liquidity crisis as governments desperately try to shore up crumbling economies. But, as Hippolyte Fofack explains, there is a...

Gaining admission to Oxford, the prestigious British university thought to be better than pretty much every American Ivy League school besides Harvard, is a major achievement at any age. However, the fact...

A mother has appeared in court in South Africa accused of hacking off a man's penis after he was suspected of raping and killing her five-year-old daughter.  Veronique Makwena, 23, is charged...

Eneza Education has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to launch an SMS-based learning platform in Rwanda. The platform will enable students to remain engaged in their studies while waiting for...

Amid a pandemic, a civil rights reckoning, and the heat of the Los Angeles summer, three young brothers are helping to cool the place down with a hip-hop-inspired healthy frozen...

Zambia’s Zesco Limited says it intends to save about 12 megawatts of electricity through the installation of energy-saving bulbs. The power utility, on Monday, through its spokesman, Henry Kapata, said...

Kandi Burruss was growing restless. She’d already scored a platinum album, won a Grammy, and starred on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. But no matter her accomplishments, in 2011, nobody wanted...

The World Business Angels Investment Forum recently announced African Development Bank as its newest Board Member, a position that will see the Bank represent Africa's early-stage equity markets, entrepreneurship and...

The Omo bones were discovered between 1967 and 1974 at the Omo Kibish sites near the Omo River, in Omo National Park in south-western Ethiopia. First, anatomically modern humans are...

Miracle J. Reese is the founder of one of very few Black-owned tea companies based in Birmingham, Ala. Her company, TasTea Wellness Blends (pronounced “taste tea”), is a premium loose-leaf...