Lawmakers have given the green light to Ivanhoe Atlantic’s 25-year concession to transport iron ore from the Kon Kweni deposit in neighbouring Guinea via a 243-kilometre railroad to...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi have put the hard sell on Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan...

After the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) comes America First healthcare. In the week ending 13 December, Lesotho, Eswatini and Uganda joined Kenya in signing agreements...

Ten weeks after its expiry on 30 September, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is close to being reborn, at least for three years. Less clear is...

A lawsuit accusing the Banque de France of complicity in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is set to reopen sores between Paris and President Paul Kagame’s government.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration is intensifying its diplomatic feud with South Africa, inviting Poland to next year’s G20 summit in Miami and excluding South Africa. President...

Kenya will get US$1.7 billion of United States funding in the first of a series of bilateral health spending pacts that will replace assistance from the United States...

The money may be rolling in from the Mopane offshore field but President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s government is looking beyond oil to fuel growth.

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...