Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

An interrogation of the Dangote Refinery IPO offer

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

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Several mansions in Maitama Extension in Abuja were submerged by flood over the weekend due to what residents described as indiscriminate construction along...

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Although most Mexicans remained in their communities during the drug war, the associated violence generated large welfare losses that are mostly invisible in standard migration statistics.

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

Why digital newspapers are struggling – and what to do about it

Stay connected via Google News A phone chat with Dr Lasisi Lagunju, editor of Saturday Tribune and ace…

U.S. dollar–pegged digital tokens reduce payment frictions but raise new policy trade-offs

The war in Iran has had some visible consequences, like skyrocketing energy costs and higher gas prices, but the effects of this war are often far less obvious and much more serious for the world’s…

Some will question its credibility. But the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak

In the Brazilian Amazon, large landholders strategically donate to local politicians, who promote agriculture in return – with negative environmental consequences.

Au total, 82,2 millions de personnes dans le monde ont dû fuir au sein de leur propre pays, dont 32,3 millions en raison de conflits. Cette cause de déplacement supplante pour la première fois les catastrophes. L’Iran et la RDC concentrent les deux tiers des nouveaux déplacements internes.

Iroro Tanshi, a Nigerian-born conservation ecologist, has been named among winners of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Cocaine moves through the same global trade networks as legal goods, with violence rising where criminal groups fight over ports and other chokepoints.

Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ allegiances to slavery An 86-year-old man has issued what is believed to be the first formal apology by someone in France for their family’s role in transatlantic slavery. Pierre Guillon de Prince’s ancestors, based in Nantes, which was the country’s largest port for transatlantic slavery, were shipowners who transported about 4,500 enslaved Africans and owned plantations in the Caribbean. Continue reading...

By Franklin Iyamah | Industrial policy, which refers to the deliberate action by governments to drive growth in manufacturing, has returned to the centre of economic strategy around the world, first b...

Africa’s margins have become its main theatre of violence. From the Great Lakes region to the Sahel, armed groups exploit borderlands as safe havens and logistics hubs.

Illegal gold mining in Niger state has fuelled gang violence ever since gold was discovered in certain metropolitan parts of the town.

Understanding levels and patters of intergenerational social mobility can help in designing policy mixes that enhance both drivers of economic growth and equality of opportunity. This column provides new cross-country estimates of intergenerational social mobility for 29 OECD countries. Parental background exerts a significant influence on offsprings’ socioeconomic outcomes, though with a different extent across countries. Education is a key channel of intergenerational mobility.

Applause erupted in the UN General Assembly Hall on Wednesday as Member States adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.

Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Almost all countries have ended large-scale forced labor, often surprisingly recently.

The leading global early warning system for acute food insecurity systematically underestimates the scale of crisis-level hunger, missing around one in five people affected. As a result, global assessments significantly understate the scope of global humanitarian need, with serious consequences for the timing and adequacy of aid to vulnerable populations.

Thousands of fishermen have descended on the Matan Fadan river, a UNESCO heritage site that snakes through lush vegetation in the village of Argungu in Nigeria’s northwest.