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 chronology of key events: 16th century - Sao Tome colonised by the Portuguese, who bring in slaves to work sugar plantations. Becomes important staging post for slave trade. Portugal granted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conservationists on São Tomé, a tropical island that is home to a rich diversity of plants, birds and butterflies, have launched a project to help local farmers breed butterflies to boost incomes and ...

Archaeologists excavated “the largest sugar mill” in São Tomé and Príncipe and found evidence of an early enslaved labor system and local resistance, a study said. Photo from M. Dores Cruz Overgrown ...

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is a country with various shades of green, with 86% of the islands’ territory covered by forests. On the island of São Tomé, one third of the territory is covered by mostly ...

Out of the 800 universities in the World University Rankings, not one US college appears in the top 30 with the most international students. Eleven universities in Australia and New Zealand are ...

The African Development Bank Group and the Government of São Tomé and Príncipe have deepened their development partnership with $18 million in new grant financing.

With a population similar to that of the Isle of Wight and an economy dominated by cocoa, the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe fits more with the image of a beguiling tropical backwater than a ...