Miss Côte d’Ivoire pageant has banned contestants from wearing wigs and weaves to encourage and empower women to feel ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: On Monday, 31-year-old Ange Gnacadja rests on cotton harvested in Soclogbo, Benin. Earthquakes in the north of ...

Africa’s illegal natural resource economy is difficult to quantify, not only because of its illicit nature but because of fragmented data focused on specific minerals or resources at particular ...