Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's Democratic Alliance party went to court on Tuesday to challenge new employment equity ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

In a darkening world, here’s an unlikely glimmer of light: Last month, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed ...

Dr. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, calls for investment in Africa’s energy sources.

Away from the headlines around the minerals deal with Ukraine, the United States has pursued a potentially even more ...

Africa’s biggest bank plans to grow the market share of its asset management business in East Africa to take advantage of the ...

Growing up in Nigeria's cocoa farming area of Ikom in the southeast, Anyoghe Akwa did not see much of a future, so instead he ...

Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more traditional path.

There are moments, especially living and working across our dynamic continent, when you can almost feel the pulse of Africa's ...

Scholars say the next pope will contend with climate change and rising authoritarianism as well as shifting demographics and ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.