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There are indications that the world economy is beginning to pull out of recession, because of the resilience caused by unprecedented macroeconomic...

In 2007 sub-Saharan Africa experienced one of its highest growth rates in decades. Real GDP expanded by about 6½ percent, fueled by growing...

Widespread flooding in southern Angola has been blamed for a surge in cholera, with 4,500 cases of the waterborne disease reported this year, and 150...

The assassination of the presidential peace envoy to Senegal’s troubled Casamance region in December will not derail the peace process, government...

It is 10 o'clock on a Friday night in Soweto, Johannesburg's most famous township, but it's still early for The Rock, a nightclub popular with the...

Since the 1970s, Mauritania’s capital city has been growing explosively and today a million people call the scruffy, ramshackle city’s collection of...