The authorities of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Thursday commended the review of the North East Stabilization and Development Master Plan, with a view to reflecting current ...

Across 35 countries, there are some disconnects between how people rate the importance of free expression and how free they feel they actually are.

Israeli attacks have caused secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

The Congolese government can ban former President Joseph Kabila's party, but peace in the country’s east will only come when Kinshasa addresses the threat to Rwanda from the genocidal militia, FDLR, ...

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as ...

Another cause is economics. Many African countries are entering a phase in their development in which people are still poor ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.