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Turkey has helped its African partners to better combat the coronavirus since the early days of the pandemic, whether supplying ventilators to Somalia, sending fabric and sewing machines for mask-making...

General elections in Ghana took place on December 7 as the West African nation held its eighth uninterrupted polls in 28 years to choose a president and lawmakers. Election officials say results may be...

Motheo Koitsiwe developed his passion for indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) research, particularly indigenous astronomy, at a tender age after consuming a lot of stories about the moon and stars. “This...

South Africa's president has announced a raft of new restrictions in a major city as the nation stares down a possible coronavirus resurgence.  This has been a tough year for...

President-elect Joe Biden's incoming economic team unveiled Tuesday pledged to take urgent action as soon as they are sworn in to correct an economy struggling from the global coronavirus pandemic....

A Black resident in a Jacksonville neighborhood in Florida has filed a federal lawsuit against his local homeowners’ association after he was told to remove a Black Lives Matter flag he hung...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTA) will begin operations in January 2021, although trading was originally planned for July 1, 2020, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic....

From next year, officials in Nigeria and the British Museum will take part in an archaeological dig to look for royal treasures in the former African kingdom of Benin. The...

The city of Cape Coast in Ghana’s Central Region is widely known as the nation’s tourism hub and the ‘Makah’ for African Americans. Every year, hundreds of Black people across...

President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede defeat in the US presidential election even though major independent media outlets have called the race for Democratic presidential nominee and former...

The size of the American economy, the dominance of US companies and the power of the dollar mean the results of the US election race are set to reverberate throughout...

Opposition MPs in the UK are not happy with Boris Johnson over comments supporting Britain’s colonial activities in Africa. While a Tory MP, Johnson wrote in a 2002 article that colonialism in...