South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

Reducing our aid could open the door for powers such as China and Russia to increase their influence instead, writes Dimy ...

Yet much of it is common among young people across Africa. Better educated than their parents and full of entrepreneurial zeal, they find that their societies are not letting them fulfil their ...

Africa-focused e-commerce retailer Jumia Technologies will grow orders by up to 25% and continue to cut costs this year while ...

Explore the fascinating discovery of the African predator Bastetodon syrtos, an ancient prehistoric carnivore from Egypt.

The morning sun slants through the canopy of Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park as Sgt. Abdou Diouf and his brigade of ...

(Mainichi/Yuta Shibayama) KOBE -- Next to a railway crossing in Kobe's Tarumi Ward there is a pedestrian crossing spanning a national highway. However, there is only a narrow space for people to ...

Volleys of gunfire rang out in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border town of Uvira on Wednesday, local sources said, as clashes broke out among allied forces amid the advance of Rwanda-backed ...

Deep within the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert lies an enormous, circular formation spanning nearly 50 kilometers—an ...

A new land reform law is at the centre of Donald Trump’s aid freeze on South Africa. What does it actually do? Trump’s freeze on aid to South Africa caps years of growing tension over ...

Yuta Watanabe, 27, a civil-service worker from Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, visited the Kyoto Railway Museum in Shimogyo Ward on Oct. 24 after learning about the steam locomotive on the Internet.

Radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, is the clinical use of high energy rays (ionizing radiation) to induce DNA damage in all exposed cells to ultimately kill cancer cells or prevent cancer growth ...