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‘Such good English,’ Trump said, asking: ‘Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? In Liberia?’ ‘Yes sir,’ Jospeh Boakai replied

President Donald Trump is being criticized by social media users after telling an African leader to keep their remarks brief during a meeting with multiple leaders, encouraging them to stick to the schedule for the event.

US President Donald Trump will host five leaders from West Africa Wednesday for a White House summit aimed at fostering trade to counter the growing regional influence of Russia and China.

The government’s three-month ban on processing asylum applications draws criticism from human rights groups.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively massive jaws, and huge teeth with thick dental enamel. It’s thought to have lived between 2.25 million…

Nature isn’t confined to officially protected areas. A lot can be done to conserve biodiversity in other places too. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity agreed in 2018 on the idea of “other effective area-based conservation measures” (OECMs). These are geographically defined areas which can be managed in ways…

Greece continues to be a key entry point to the EU for people escaping conflict and hardship in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

US President Donald Trump will host the leaders of five West and Central African countries at the White House on Wednesday at the start of an unprecedented two-day summit. Trade, investment and security are expected to top the agenda as Washington pivots away from foreign development aid.

Ghana’s president has launched a special task force to combat rampant illegal gold mining and smuggling that has long plagued the West African nation

In a wide-ranging interview with Euronews, Eziakonwa argued that Africa’s growing strategic importance demands a stronger, more balanced partnership—not a retreat.