The IMF, World Bank and AfDB once erased debts of nations like Ghana and Ethiopia in an anti-poverty push – a milestone that now feels distant.

Ahead of its 28 August target for receiving the next batch of Afrikaner ‘asylum seekers’, the United States is trying to beef up processing capacity in South Africa.

The plan was to oust General Babangida and kill his lieutenants, says a mastermind behind the botched one-day coup in 1990. Instead, the chief of army staff Abacha defeated the plotters and the ...

Kenya ’s serial investors Jimnah Mbaru, Benson Wairegi and Peter Munga hail from the same village in Murang’a County, just northeast of Nairobi. Although their holdings and private investments vary, ...

With Cameroon heading into the presidential election in four months, Paul Biya leans on a loyal inner circle of military and civilian security chiefs, the powerbrokers who shield both the state and ...

Mali’s junta is pressuring gold and lithium miners to comply with new laws. Our infographics show how producers are gradually falling into line.

Cocoa, oil, mining, infrastructure – with colossal profits, commodity trading giants dominate crucial sectors of African economies. We break down their influence.

On Wednesday 25 June, the protest chants in Kenya ‘s capital Nairobi were impossible to ignore. ‘ Ruto must go! ’ rang out from major streets of the Kenyan capital to the livestreams watched by ...

Born in Kampala, raised in Cape Town in post-apartheid South Africa and politically awakened in New York’s Queens, Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s journey to becoming the Democratic contender for mayor of the ...

The United States received an unusually blunt rebuke from African leaders and business officials at the US-Africa Business Summit in Angola‘s capital, Luanda, as frustrations mounted over punitive ...

After slashing foreign aid and imposing steep tariffs, the Trump administration now wants to introduce a remittance tax, a move that could disrupt billions sent to Africa.

While details are still being ironed out over the next few weeks, Fitrell said the summit is expected to be held in late summer or early autumn (September to October), ideally in New York. There is ...