Africa Travel News

Blitz Patrollie: South African films cover a wide range of genres, but generally it is the B-grade car chase or comedy scripts that seem to be preferred.

South Africa has become a full member of the European A Synchrotron Radiation Facility, a A massive light source that can "see" into any material.

Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year in a lot of places-with a few exceptions.

A worker sits amongst bags of Flour at a warehouse in a grain market in Cairo . "How can the United States help Egypt?" is a common question heard around the Beltway these days.

In February, Global Post profiled an interesting startup in Africa called Mobius Motors that is working to manufacture affordable cars designed specifically for Africans.

Cova da Moura, a poor district north-west of Lisbon, was built illegally in the late 1970s by African migrants Economic migrants from Africa have been coming to Portugal for more than 50 years but they have rarely encountered such challenging times.

Just when you think you have heard it all when it comes to TV shows, you come across What's in a Name and discover how wrong you've been.

The day resonated for thousands, but for Nigerian noblewoman, economist, and banker, The Otunba Ayora, Bola Kuforiji-Olubi, it was magic, instructive -- a beautiful experience.

Asserts the Nigerian libertarian blogger, who has been traveling throughout West Africa : " It was inspiring to see women run the security and protocols at the in Togo but one's spirit was dampened by the sight of queues for the rest room and the fact that tissues were rationed to users.

Displaced persons from East Darfur at a camp in another part of the region in western Sudan.

Southampton football coach Chris Harding is gearing up for adventure of a lifetime when he will cycle more than 11,000 miles from Southampton to Lesotho to raise money for the Saints Foundation and Kick For Life charity which uses football to help disadvantaged children.

We were out at Tongg's surf break when the world's best-traveled writer paddled past in a kayak.

Music collective Weird Together were inspired by the travelling that DJ and man about town Nick Dwyer did as part of his music documentary series, Making Tracks .

Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, inaugural flight today touched down in Abha, Saudi Arabia, from its primary hub in Sharjah.

A baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

She just enjoys making other people happy, and Bridgewater resident, and recent Virgina Tech graduate, Valerie Hengemuhle is continuing to do that with her work overseas to help underprivileged youths attend school.

France will invest about 20 million euros to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya was targeted by a car bomb in April, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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