Mankind has no right to leave 733 million people to the scourge of hunger. In a world that annually produces almost six billion tonnes of food, this is inadmissible. In a world where military spending ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands. Brazil on Friday ...

SAO PAOLO, Brazil (UNHCR) - Seated in his São Paulo apartment among bongos, tambourines and paintings of savannah sunsets, Mikanda*, a soft-spoken 38-year-old, tells the story of his arrival alone in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva winds up his final presidential tour of Africa with a clutch of deals after dramatically expanding ties during eight years in ...

At the recent African Union summit in Ethiopia, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff announced that she would write off or restructure $900 million in African debt to her country. BBC News reports that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil is launching a top-level drive to expand its economic ties with Africa, a sign of how crises in the rich world are pushing faster-growing emerging economies to trade ...

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Brazilian police investigating the grim discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania. Fishermen off Brazil's northern coastal state of Pará ...

The best way to view the Nigerian nation is that it stands at a critical juncture. The central question is how to transform it from its current state into the country it ought to be: one of the ...