Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

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On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

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Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

South Africa's second biggest political party has launched a legal challenge against a new land expropriation law that was ...

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