The latest compromise on rates for value added tax in the much-delayed budget has kept the Government of National Unity in power – but at the expense of...

Kenya will overtake Ethiopia as East Africa’s largest economy this year, the IMF has said. Kenya’s gross domestic product will be US$132 billion in 2025, compared to Ethiopia’s...

The crackdown against opposition to President Kaïs Saïed’s regime is intensifying with over a dozen politicians and activists being jailed for between 18 and 66 years on treason...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that aid to struggling sub-Saharan African countries should be ringfenced amid the deep spending cuts threatened by the...

The government’s repeal of exchange rate controls is set to speed up the demise of the Zimbabwe Gold (ZIG) currency, just a year after its introduction.

Disagreement among the regional sponsors of the main combatants in Sudan’s civil war, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led to the collapse of...

Charging opposition leader Tundu Lissu with treason and banning him from this year’s election shows that President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s opening of Tanzania’s political space has ended. Calls...

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its support for Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara at a meeting in Washington with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. US...

One of the world’s weakest economies, with a GDP per capita of US$509 a year, Madagascar was threatened with a 47% tariff on goods exports to the United...

Confusion reigns as officials and companies seek clarity on the timetable for the swingeing ‘reciprocal’ tariffs imposed on exports to the United States by President Donald Trump on...