Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has hedged on the prospect of a peace deal with Congo-Kinshasa being signed in Washington DC next week, accusing the Kinshasa government of having...

Last week’s European Union-African Union summit in Luanda was a damp squib in monetary terms, after the European Commission made so many big money promises ahead of the...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government will introduce a new royalty structure for gold mining companies from 1 January in a bid to cash in on prices exceeding US$4,000 per...

On 20 November, European Union foreign ministers moved closer to taking a side in Sudan’s civil war by imposing sanctions on the deputy leader of the Rapid Support...

The agreement struck on 20 November between China, Zambia and Tanzania to refurbish and reopen the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) railway line at a cost of US$1.4 billion...

S&P Global Ratings has refuted claims that it treats African countries unfairly after it and the two other major credit ratings agencies, Moody's and Fitch, were slammed in...

Ministers plan to use revenues from the recently opened Simandou iron ore mine to underpin Guinea’s first sovereign wealth fund, aiming to have it operational by the second...

Instead of opening its doors on 10 November, the Museum of Western African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City appears to be on the brink of collapse. A glossy...

A US$1.35 billion public-private financing plan by the World Bank for Kenya’s property market reflects the sky-rocketing demand for housing in Africa, the fastest urbanising continent. Over 40,000...

Kenya and Senegal both continue to experience slow progress towards agreeing new lending arrangements with the International Monetary Fund.