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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Fears that the U.S. economy is about to slip into recession have receded quite significantly in...
Sengalese at cultural parade in Harlem in New York. Photo: Alamy / Richard Levine
TO experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors including many...
RESEARCHERS at the Uongozi Institute, specializing in wisdom in matters of development, via...
In the Siraro District of Ethiopia, extreme weather patterns are increasing. Since 2005, people have endured five droughts. Photo: Peter Lüthi / Biovision
THE unusually hot summer of 2018 showed that climate change affects a central part of our lives...
A cow grazes in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 25, 2017. A group of women in Kenya were able to start a business raising cattle for slaughter after acquiring a loan without a land title document. Photo: File
"We had no land to graze the cattle. Nor could we obtain a loan from a bank to buy land, because...
Supporters of Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the Congolese main opposition party, celebrate outside the party’s headquarters in Kinshasa on Thursday. Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters
OFFICIAL election results in the Democratic Republic of the Congo do not reflect polling station...
Members of the Libyan National Army take part in a graduation ceremony in Benghazi in December. Photo: Abdullah Doma/AFP/Getty Images
LIBYA risks losing its final chance to find a peaceful solution to four years of deadlock...
Record global greenhouse gas emissions are putting the world on a path toward unacceptable...
Baby chimp Kyewunyo-Kyewunyo, whose name means surprise-surprise, at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Image courtesy of the Chimpanzee Trust
AT the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center in Entebbe, a steady stream of school buses...
Farmer Yuniel Pons and his wife Sandra Díaz stand next to the biodigester installed by their house, which with its innovative system supplies energy to the kitchens of eight homes in La Macuca, a rural settlement in the municipality of Cabaiguán, in central Cuba. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
Black plastic pipes, readily available on the mainly empty shelves of Cuba’s shops, distribute...
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Key parts of the US government shut down on December 22 after President Donald Trump and...
After being one of the first hospitals in the country to adapt an electronic registration system...