Logistics, energy, minerals – the United Arab Emirates has become one of Africa’s leading foreign investors, behind the ...

Ghana’s battle against illegal gold mining is deepening as ‘galamsey’ ravages rivers, cocoa farms and public trust in ...

Youth revolts from Morocco to Madagascar highlight public-service shortfalls on the continent, as the IMF and World Bank hold ...

Niger Delta protesters and others have urged South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to free Henry Okah, calling the activist ...

Zimbabwe is selling record volumes of tobacco, yet most of the value still departs with unprocessed leaf – chiefly to China.

For decades, East Africa’s two largest economies had looked rather like opposites. Ethiopia was a Marxist-influenced, ...

When Valdene Reddy takes over as chief executive of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in April 2026, she will inherit not ...

The contingent that, early in the morning, urged the security forces to ‘refuse to fire’ and ‘take responsibility’ took up ...

The State Department gets a makeover while Congress approves the president’s first batch of ambassadors to the continent.

The UN’s 80th anniversary laid bare deep fractures: a cash crisis, vanishing multilateralism, and rising powers rewriting the ...

The high-profile abduction of Tanzania’s former ambassador to Cuba, Humphrey Polepole, has sent shockwaves across the country ...

China has extended its zero-tariffs policy on exports to 53 African countries. What does it mean for the continent? Here is a ...