When Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization’s director-general, finally called time on its biannual ministerial conference in Cameroon in the early hours of 30 March, the sticking point...

The soft launch for Neofingo, a ‘Ghana-Britain digital trade finance corridor’, by a public and non-profit consortium on 28 March championed a new way to cut through the...

By getting MPs to back spending increases taking the 2026 budget to US$49.4 billion, a 15% increase on the plan tabled in December, President Bola Tinubu is leaving...

Amid its fraying ties with the United States, the European Union is shoring up defences on its eastern flank and negotiating security deals in North and West Africa...

When President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress swept back to power in December 2024 on a wave of popular goodwill, its pledge to nearly double the cocoa...

When President John Dramani Mahama convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in February to address what officials privately described as a ‘structural heart attack’ in Ghana's cocoa sector, few...

When they meet Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 18-19 March state visit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III at Windsor Castle, some politicians in the ruling...

Opposition activists claim that the new electoral act, hurriedly signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is aimed at disqualifying all the substantive opposition from contesting in national elections...

He was already leader of the traditional Dioula/Sénoufo hunter community – the dozos – when Ali Konaté rose to national prominence. In February 2018, dressed in his hunter’s...

Over two weeks, São Tomé’s police detained two foreign special advisors appointed by Prime Minister Américo Ramos and President Carlos Vila Nova. The scandals are an unexpected boost...