South Africa is caught in a classic debt trap, with the economy growing more slowly than the interest the government pays on its rapidly expanding debt. In recent...

Hours before opposition leaders were set to launch their campaign on 28 October against President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s plan for a third term, arsonists gutted the SAPES Trust...

It was the military’s backing for the Gen Z protests against President Andry Rajoelina that forced him to flee aboard a French military jet on 12 October. At...

Colonel Michael Randrianirina’s rapid rise from a senior military officer to the presidency of Madagascar owes much to luck and Gen Z. Randrianirina would not be president without...

Zimbabwe’s parliament is mulling a plan to modernise one of Africa’s most mineral-rich economies – but the long-delayed Mines and Minerals Bill may consolidate rather than challenge the...

The annual conference of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF), which veers between sycophantic theatre and high-stakes factional drama, is set to host a fiery confrontation when...

After their comfortable election win, 85-year-old former president Peter Mutharika and his running mate Jane Ansah are expected to move quickly with an economic stabilisation plan after they...

More questions are being raised about the accountability of lobbying companies after it has emerged in filings lodged with the United States government that veteran CIA agent Dale...

A former African National Congress (ANC) Mayor of Johannesburg, Parks Tau’s career was in jeopardy after losing the mayoralty to the Democratic Alliance’s Herman Mashaba in 2016 after...

When President Duma Boko announced in New York on 22 September that his government was preparing to take a majority stake in the De Beers diamond conglomerate by...