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In an interview with The Cut magazine the Duchess of Sussez has said her and Prince Harry were "happy" to leave Britain and the Royal Family

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A project implemented in a low-income area of Bogota, Colombia, part of the Sport for Development and Peace initiative, used Olympic race walking as a tool to foster the development of youth from low-income neighbourhoods.

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki recently painted a gloomy picture of the country and its prospects. He said the governing African National Congress (ANC), led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, did not have a national plan to address the country’s many socio-economic problems. These include high and growing unemployment, inequality,…

Cash found stuffed in the president’s sofas is damaging his chances in the country’s upcoming elections

Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s second post-apartheid president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 18 June 2022. Following Mandela’s era of multiracial and multicultural rainbowism, Mbeki had to squarely address the challenges of acute inequality and the numerous grievances of the black majority caused by colonialism and…

A leading commentator on the UK's Royal Family has said that Prince Harry “wears his heart on his sleeve”.

In tonight's edition: Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people have set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities following a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south. Meanwhile, Italy’s PM Mario Draghi is in Algeria where an energy deal is being signed between the two countries. Finally,…

Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and leading pan-Africanist, would have been 97 on 20 July 2022.