Russia, the world’s leading wheat exporter, delivered 21 million tonnes of the vital grain to Africa last year, largely ...

With fossil fuel investments in decline, the new Africa Energy Bank aims to finance oil, gas and eventually renewables while ...

With South Africa hosting the G20 ministerial meetings, Cyril Ramaphosa is leveraging diplomatic efforts to boost Swazi ...

Six months into Floyd Shivambu’s term as the uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s longest-serving secretary-general, the youngest South ...

In a memo over sweeping travel restrictions being discussed by the Trump administration, half of the 43 countries named are ...

The release of Hannibal Gaddafi after a decade of detention in Lebanon has put the family of Libya’s former ruler back into ...

With an estimated net worth of $6.8bn, Mike Adenuga started out as an unlicensed cab driver while studying in New York and ...

As Marco Rubio calls South Africa’s Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool persona non grata, here is a chronicle of a falling out ...

In March 1986 the president of Burkina Faso, who hid his books in trunks to avoid revealing himself, granted a very personal ...

One year after accepting the job, the first woman and the first African to head the Open Society Foundations finds time ...

Ethnic groups threaten Nigeria’s oil facilities amid the Rivers State feud between Governor Sim Fubara and his predecessor ...

With an economy under IMF supervision, public frustration with political elites and a deeply polarised landscape, Ghana President John Mahama’s final term could either cement his legacy through bold ...