1984: Prince’s Purple Rain album goes to number one and stays in that position for 24 weeks. 1989: Two speeding passenger ...

Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir on August 4, 1578 ...

In 1578, three of the most courageous kings marked history in one of the largest wars ever fought in North Africa between ...

On a drizzling Sunday afternoon, people here gathered at Campanelli Stadium to celebrate Cape Verde, the island nation off ...

The alert situation for mainland Portugal begins at 00:00 this Sunday and lasts until 23:59 on Thursday 7 August, announced ...

Against this backdrop of rising investor appetite, African Mining Week (AMW) 2025, taking place in Cape Town from October 1–3 ...

Subject Moraes, J. A. da Cunha Notes J. A. da Cunha Moraes was one of several Portuguese photographers established in the Portuguese African colonies in the late nineteenth century. Based in Luanda, ...

On January 20, 2025, Global Finance named iib East Africa as the Best Sustainable Bank in its 2025 Sustainable Finance Awards, recognizing the bank’s integration of ESG principles into core operations ...

“For the first time, international refugee law training can reach mainly Portuguese speakers and this is instrumental in expanding knowledge of such important human rights instruments,” said Judge ...

Uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1502, St. Helena was later claimed by the Dutch before becoming a British territory—today, residents, known as Saints, have ancestral links to Britain ...