With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

The conclave is among the most geographically diverse in history, mirroring a Church where Africa and Asia account for a ...

African leaders increasingly neglect homegrown initiatives, instead bowing to foreign ...

The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is daunting: governing.