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A red shipping container sits on the tarmac of Sierra Leone's Queen Elizabeth II Quay, under swinging cranes and towering stacks of similar steel boxes.

When I arrived as a graduate student in New York in 1983, the city and the country were in the middle of a vibrant anti-apartheid campaign. I never dreamt that 40 years later I would feel this gnawing ...

Iran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites. But the ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

Nelson Mandela not only put his reputation on the line but spent significant political capital actively supporting the ...

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?

The site sits 23 metres above sea level on the southern coast of South Africa overlooking the Indian Ocean. You can watch whales from the site today, but during the Ice Age the ocean was nowhere ...

CONWAY, South Carolina (WJCL) — A South Carolina woman has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering the father of four of her children.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A federal court on Tuesday granted a request by former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to serve a six-year prison sentence for corruption at her ...

People in South Africa were heat treating this material to improve its quality for tool production as early as 164,000 years ago. The silcrete tools at Knysna were heat treated before being brought to ...