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, ...

H.E. Amani Abou-Zeid, Egyptian, was elected the new Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission. H.E. Abou-Zeid was an international development lead expert who has been ...

He was laid to rest at his residence in Kunkujang Jatta-ya village, West Coast Region the same day. Hundreds of mourners ...

He didn't have the opportunities to play music until well into his twenties. After decades of pursuing his passion, he can ...

In 1917, while a student at Howard University, Diggs Slowe accomplished what would go on to become a milestone in both African-American and female sports as a whole. In winning the American Tennis ...

In Gambia, various ethnic groups including the Mandinka, Wolof ... Sulay described Ngente as an "African tradition" practiced in a few other countries beyond Gambia. He noted that close family ...

For two decades, the American people have paid for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in ...

Africa has been home to many of the fastest growing economies in the world – creating a need for new buildings, houses and roads, as well as access to abundant energy and clean water. Caterpillar’s ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...