These are not side effects. They are unpriced costs. In many African mining regions, agriculture collapses after mining begins. Food insecurity rises. When the mine closes, poverty deepens.

Morocco plans to spend some $330 million on regions hit hardest by weeks of flooding across the country’s north that have battered its key agricultural zones, the government said Thursday ...

Zimbabwe’s cabinet on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to the constitution as part of a bid to extend 83-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term till 2030, angering opposition figures who warned ...