Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says that the city has several projects in the pipeline to mitigate congestion, including getting its trains up and running and finishing the “unfinished ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

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The wings of Ghana and belly of America, Goldstar Air, a private international airline with an issued Air Carrier License ...

Despite being wanted by European authorities, a billionaire cocaine trafficker is seen in videos with political elites in ...

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In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic coast in the central-western part of Morocco, the greater metropole has a population ...

African tech firm Cassava Technologies announces plans to build the continent’s first “artificial intelligence factory,” in ...

Not only does one African city have the largest gold mine by reserves, but it also earned the nickname "city of gold" for its riches in natural resources. After gold first being discovered in the ...