THE South African Communist Party (SACP) unequivocally condemns the right-wing conservative President of the United States, ...

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France’s influence in Africa is weakening, but it hasn’t disappeared. While political ties are fading, its economic grip ...

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Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...