Germany is set to be the next European Union country to attempt to broker 'cash for migrants' deals, primarily with North African states Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt....

European Union leaders are to use a special summit on 9 February to find new ways to organise the return of unauthorised migrants from Africa and the Middle...

Negotiations on protocols for a global and national level pandemic response have started with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body's (INB) publication of a 'zero-draft' of...

The plan by Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to lead a 'United States-Africa Policy Working Group' could trigger a new divide with the Republican party in the US's...

Godwin Emefiele, the self-styled development central banker, has been courting national controversy this year for the second time in this presidential election season.

A decade of gains in education and health provision, as well as economic growth are at risk due to deteriorating conditions for security and rule of law as...

The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016, weeks after...

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema urged creditors on 23 January to accelerate negotiations to restructure some US$13 billion of the country's $17bn foreign debt after meeting with Kristalina Georgieva,...

It is the biggest probe into corruption in the European Union for over two decades and centres on claims that Qatar and Morocco bought influence in the European...

Uganda's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project to construct a 273 kilometre line from Kenya's border town of Malaba to Kampala has been dogged by over-priced contracts, incompetent officials,...