South Africa's crumbling infrastructure has cost it its gateway status to Africa, with China now positioned to fill the gap for trade and investment.

Large-scale infrastructure projects across Africa are attracting billions of dollars in investment. They're also replicating ...

A major railway operator in Japan is embarking on a journey to build what it says will be the world’s first 3D-printed train station. The new station structure, measuring about 108 square feet, will ...

Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...

As a collective, Asia and the Middle East were the second-largest agricultural markets, accounting for 21% of the share of ...

The Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has been a game-changer for Kenya's transport sector since it was unveiled ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

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Waxing down his board at the beach where he grew up, Souleymane Sidibe is determined to show the judges in Ivory Coast’s ...

I seem to recall about three years ago [c 1983] that my daughter noticed a ‘map’ (for want of a better description) of Hertfordshire, except there were no roads, rivers, no national grid and no ...

Egypt proposed on Tuesday a $53bn plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip over five years, a text of which has been ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.