From politics to pop culture, climate to conflict, 2024 was a year of tumbling records — but not always for the best reasons.

The debate about female genital cutting has led to an open discussion about sexual pleasure in Gambia, with women buying sex ...

It’s a 6,000-kilometre long corridor of land connecting the Atlantic to the Red Sea that’s been called “one of the most ...

The New Year 2025 promises to be full of conflicts, most of them avoidable. The hottest spot might be in the Middle East where fierce proxy conflicts are going on with Israel at the centre. Only the ...

Scenes from some of the most popular TikToks from the Global South in 2024: a dancing teen from the Philippines; an homage to ...

Faransa is the name of France in Hausa, an ethnic language that straddles Nigeria and Niger. Some observers say the fact that ...

WHEN you listen to the way some people discuss issues the impression you get is that our education system has not yet ...

An airstrike targeting an armed group in northwestern Nigeria mistakenly killed at least 10 civilians, the West African nation’s military said Friday. The villagers were killed on Christmas Day when ...

The THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, was used to try to intercept a projectile from Yemen sometime ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 20 people who were convicted of extremism, state media reported on ...

It also plans to withdraw from all bilateral tax haven treaties and to renegotiate unfavourable clauses in such agreements.