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

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

Ten years ago, residents from the Bille and Ogale communities in Nigeria claimed their livelihoods had been destroyed and homes damaged by hundreds of oil spills caused by Shell. The pollution caused ...

Some 4000 members of two local communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta have been cleared to take British multinational oil and gas giant Shell to the high court in UK over charges of environmental ...

How do global perceptions of Africa affect the continent? We examine how negative global perceptions of the African continent affect its economies and the lives of its people.

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