Long before oil, skyscrapers, or air routes, it was the ports that defined the Arab world’s power and imagination. Across the Mediterranean and the Gulf, Arab coastal cities became the pulsing hearts ...

Lagos Fashion Week has made history, taking home the 2025 Earthshot Prize, one of the world’s biggest environmental awards.

Mamdani, who defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, is set to take the office of mayor on January ...

Read through Senegal's World Cup history, records and memorable moments. Follow their road to the tournament with the latest on their fixtures, group and coach.

The 36 year old goalkeeper is the oldest amongst the five but has kept the same out amount of clean sheets as Sipho Chaine and Rowen Williams. He has kept those six clean sheets in 12 games. His ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known ...

Uganda is celebrating the stunning victory of Kampala-born Zohran Mamdani, who has made history as the first Muslim and the ...

Morocco football fans still have vivid memories of the Atlas Lions getting knocked off the AFCON group stage in 2000, 2002, ...

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

All this reflects how an event meant to show the post-election strength of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ), the ruling party, ...

Scientists have discovered a group of tree-dwelling toads that give birth to live young rather than laying spawn in water. · Although these toads dwell high in the forests of Tanzania’s Eastern Arc ...

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