Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

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The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

The genus Abrus consists of around 17 species distributed across Africa, Madagascar, India and Indo-China ... Therefore Abrus precatorius might be called a "deadly beauty" and wearing bracelets and ...

A stunning 5th-century BC gold bracelet is one of 100 gold ornaments found in Kazakhstan, part of a remarkable treasure ...

Saint Tracy, Nigeria’s premier luxury jewellery brand and Africa’s largest gold and diamond retailer is proud to announce its ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

For decades, DRC, a Central African nation of more than 100 million people, has grappled with bloody militia violence, including ethnic and resource-driven armed rebellion by M23 and dozens of ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has threatened to march on Islamabad if tribal issues remained unresolved, asserting that while his party remained loyal to Pakistan ...