It's a taboo topic and an age-old practice across several countries and religious traditions in Africa, the Middle East and ...

STREET traders play an important role in tourism in South Africa. They provide affordable goods to tourists while generating employment for others. Some even source products locally, such as beadwork, ...

BEACHGOERS in Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam Region, face serious health risks due to hazardous medical waste washing ...

Saint-Louis, the historic “Venice of Africa,” faces rising seas and erosion. Without urgent action, this UNESCO-listed city ...

EXCLUSIVE: Winter always seems very long in the UK, so it's no surprise that many Brits are thinking about a warm February ...

“We do not know what to do.” Pronczuk reported from Dakar, Senegal. The Associated Press receives financial support for ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the ...

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

The true freshman joins the growing list of players such as Tacko Fall and Ibrahima Diallo to play for Johnny Dawkins’ team.

Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...