The borrowers’ platform – backed by the UN Conference on Tade and Development (UNCTAD) as secretariat and drawing in developing country finance ministers and central bank governors –...

The United States-Israeli-Iran war has handed Morocco’s Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) a commercial and strategic opportunity. It has raised US$1.5 billion through its first international hybrid bond,...

Pope Leo XIV has emerged as an unlikely political figure on his first trip to Africa as pontiff. After stirring the anger of United States President Donald Trump...

Turnout numbers, however embellished, rather than the voting results were the main interest in the presidential elections in Djibouti on 11 April and Benin on 12 April, after...

Five months after opposition to the election of Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan with 98% of the vote as President on 29 October escalated into deadly street clashes, Malawi’s...

Almost 4,500 white South Africans have been given refugee status in the United States since last October, according to the US Department of State's Bureau of Population. In...

African economies will slump on average by 0.2% if the United States-Israeli war against Iran lasts longer than six months, reckons a joint report by a group of...

Six months after seizing power helped by Gen Z protestors who drove out his predecessor Andry Rajoelina, interim president Colonel Michael Randrianirina has faced down an assassination plot...

The parliament in Yaoundé voted 200 to 18 on 4 April to create a new office of vice-president whose holder would be appointed and could be dismissed solely...

Ghana and the African Union have secured a diplomatic triumph after winning a sweeping majority in the United Nations for a resolution drafted by Accra calling for reparations...