Farmers in South Dakota made good progress on harvest last week, despite the rain. Corn harvest is 37% done, 4-points ahead of normal, with 72% of the soybeans harvested, 13% ahead of average.

This has given impetus to other nations in the Global South, such as those in Africa, to benefit from and advance their role in the development of the fourth industrial revolution. AI tools and ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war lasted ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

In the latest Africa Youth Survey, conducted by a South African charity in 2024, Ivory Coast was the only country where a majority said it was easy to find a job. At $2,900 a year, GDP per person ...

Until now, the most African teams who have been present in a single edition of the tournament was six in 2010, when hosts South Africa were added to the five regular qualifiers. For 2026, nine ...

Tensions with the United States could propel South Africa to depart from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) agreement, a development that could also have regional ramifications and add ...

“It was absolutely beautiful.” When she returned to South Africa the following year, she was hired as a reporter in the Bureau of Information, the apartheid regime’s propaganda win ...

Many young people sacrificed their lives to fight the racist system of apartheid It was late at night on 10 December 1987 when prison officers had woken Mzolisi Dyasi in his cell in South Africa's ...

Mexico has taken a decisive step to protect its agricultural heritage by amending its Constitution to recognise native corn as an element of national identity and banning the planting of genetically ...

“The most weather-dependent crop” will have a lot of ups and downs – of sap – before Jim Wightman knows how much maple syrup he produces at his Lancaster-area sugar bush this spring. “So far, it’s ...

As a girl growing up in New Jersey, Judith Vogel learned early that there never was a waffle that couldn’t be improved by a scoop of ice cream and a glorious drizzle of pure maple syrup.