South Africa, with the World Bank's help, has a R55-billion plan to reverse the decline of eight of its biggest cities.

A new report by the non-profit organisation Action Aid calculates that wealthier countries owe Africa US$36 trillion in ...

Heavily armed police officers quickly dispersed small groups of people who had gathered for the protest in central Harare.

On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, ...

Long before the Panama Canal, this historic trade route connected the Pacific and the Caribbean. Now you can follow the ...

ISIS has demonstrated its ability to penetrate and strike inside the US and Russia, two countries with arguably the most ...

Over 4.2 billion people now live in cities globally, with this number expected to rise ...

Africa Cup of Nations title-holders Ivory Coast had to settle for a laboured 1-0 win over The Gambia in their African 2026 World Cup qualifying group match in Abidjan on Monday night.

A library book has made its way back to Central library, after it was checked out 24 long years ago. Here's the strange ...

The Sudanese army drove its rival Rapid Support Forces from most of Khartoum city, residents said on Wednesday, as the army ...

Black people couldn't own homes in Edmond, and people who didn't own property couldn't vote. That day is long gone, officials ...

There are thousands of initiatives globally that go by the moniker. They vary in size and scope because every town has its ...