Tag: Africa

U.S. President Joe Biden combined two of his passions during his much-delayed trip to Africa last week: U.S. foreign policy and trains. At the Lobito port on the Angolan coast, ...

A strange note hung over Joe Biden’s first and last visit as U.S. president to sub-Saharan Africa this week. Over and over, Biden, members of his team, and commentators said ...

Right-wing American Christian groups that oppose sexual and reproductive rights are significantly increasing their spending in Africa, according to a new data analysis published ahead of a U.S. election, which ...

A worker at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden lost part of his thumb after a bonobo at a primate enclosure chomped down on the digit during feeding time. The ...

When the Nobel economics prize is awarded most years, I imagine the news-following public to simply nod in silent acknowledgment over their morning coffee as they listen to the radio ...

There is something mysterious about how a coffee bean becomes a commodity. From remote farmsteads and steep hillsides, it finds its way into global markets as a weighed, graded, standardized ...

In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these days to spot crises. Case in point: the broad swath of the continent known as the Sahel. There, in recent years, ...

In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. Waving the flags of the Indigenous Kanak people as ...

Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments. The ...