Wander amidst the faded colonial splendor of Sao Tome, the capital of Sao Tome and Principe, and it’s easy to be charmed by the African city’s laid back, tropical simplicity. Traders jostle to sell ...

A two-island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe is Africa's second-smallest country, with a total population of 187,000. It is a peaceful Creole society without ethnic, religious, or ...

Renegade troops said Wednesday they had deposed the government of this tiny West African island nation and intended to appoint new leaders to rule during a transition period. In a statement read on ...

People walk on a street in Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, July 14, 2023. Sao Tome and Principe, located in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa, consists of two big islands, Sao Tome and ...

People perform during the Independence Day celebrations in Guadalupe, Sao Tome Island, Sao Tome and Principe, on July 12, 2023. Sao Tome and Principe celebrated the 48th anniversary of its ...

The military accord that was signed in April by Russia and the African island state of São Tomé and Príncipe deals with military training and old Soviet-era stockpiled explosives that need to be ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

An interesting discovery in archaeology has led the experts to see traces of plantation slavery on a tiny West African island at the equator. In São Tomé, there lies a piece of evidence that the ...

Ricardo Faustino de Lima is currently a post-doc researcher funded by the Portuguese government through "Fundação para a Ciência e a tecnologia". He is also a member of Associação Monte Pico, a STP ...

There are many islands that have unique flora and fauna, like Madagascar, the Galapagos, or the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, where limbless burrowing amphibians called caecilians live. Researchers ...

São Tomé e Príncipe President Carlos Vila Nova dismissed the government on 6 January, citing its “inability” to address the country’s issues and the “frequent” absences of the prime minister, Patrice ...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2020 — The World Bank has approved a $2.5 million International Development Association (IDA)* grant to assist the government of Sao Tome and Principe in responding to the threat ...