Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of ...

Tributes came from around the globe, offering condolences to the world’s Catholics and praising the pontiff’s commitment to ...

The EU wants to cut reliance on powers like China for mineral supplies by the end of the decade. As geopolitical tensions ...

STORY: At this church in Ivory Coast, some African Catholics are hoping that one of their own could become the first Black ...

Years later, Francis would travel to Egypt, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...

For today’s Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja hears from two Congolese people who met the pope as students, Mpongo Simon and Christine Mwanini, and speaks to Father Desmond Nair, a Catholic Priest of the ...

Pope Francis passed away on Monday at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88 years old. World leaders, ...

The April 21 death of Pope Francis triggered a period of mourning in the Catholic Church, but also kick-started the race for his successor.

While in Paris, Tinubu held a high-level meeting with the United States Department of State’s Senior Advisor for Africa, Mr. Massad Boulos.

Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...