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Launceston nurse and charity founder Diana Butler is busy taking the model for sustainable development she helped create in Tanzania to the world.

Fresh waves of African asylum seekers are attempting to reach Europe, with the perilous journey already claiming lives on the high seas

Another modern-day, neo-realist effort from the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (“Rosetta,” “La Promesse”) from the French-speaking region of Belgium, “Tori and Lokita” tells the heartbreaking tale of two immigrant children from Africa, 11-year-old Tori (newcomer Pablo Schils) and 16-year-old Lokita (newcomer Joely Mbundu). They pose as brother and sister…

Mrs G has hatched 52 eggs in two decades of breeding in Wales but has not yet returned from her winter home in Africa

The Benin Bronzes were made from rings used to purchase slaves in Africa. Now, scientists have found that most of the metal was mined in western Germany.

LUSAKA, Zambia — Crowds of locals packed onto balconies and cheered as Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade pulled onto a manicured, palm-tree lined driveway, near where she had visited her grandfather in the late 1960s. But something wasn't quite right.

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It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat