On parallel tracks across Africa, this week France and Russia are trying to win the information war over which state or alliance of states is responsible for the galloping food, fe...

After over three decades of trade liberalisation, African economies are among the most open in the world but their export bases remain among the most specialised. This lack of dive...

A US$600 billion package of infrastructure funding from the European Union and the United States emerged as the headline deal for Africa and other developing regions at the G7 indu...

Every Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) prompts its own soul-searching, together with confident predictions that its 54 members will agree that this colonial-based o...

The European Court of Justice's rejection of an appeal against sanctions by Kremlin favourite Yevgeny Prigozhin, who controls private military contractor the Wagner Group, will com...

When Kenya's central bank raised interest rates on 30 May for the first time in seven years, it was the latest African economy to follow the lead of the United States Federal Reser...