The governments in Dakar and Maputo are playing ‘wait and see’ with the IMF as they work out the parameters of new borrowing and economic reform programmes with...

Somalia’s suspension of its bilateral agreements with the United Arab Emirates has prompted Dubai withdrawing workers and equipment from its ports in Somaliland, Somalia and Puntland. It will...

Against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia was the key target for the regional tour by China’s Foreign Minister...

The government’s crackdown on dissent is continuing after the state’s accreditation agency for journalists said that it would rigorously enforce the Media Services Act to ensure that only...

Egypt expects to receive the remaining €4 billion of a €5bn macro financial assistance package agreed with the EU in 2024 in three tranches before the end of...

President Bola Tinubu has rejected opposition calls to delay the implementation of a new tax regime, as the government pins its hopes on streamlining administration and collection to...

President Donald J Trump’s administration is reshaping development policy again with 13 bilateral pacts with African states so far as part of the ‘American First Global Health...

At the height of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s ‘War on Terror’ in 2004, British officials mulled whether a military operation could depose the ‘depressingly fit’ Zimbabwean President Robert...

President Hakainde Hichilema has got his constitutional amendment bill over the line, a move that will increase the size of the National Assembly and scrap term limits for...

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...