President Joyce Banda's faces her toughest political test with the arrest on 11 March of eleven former top officials who have been linked to a treason plot. The...

Resolution of the dispute over the border between Malawi and Tanzania on Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa to Tanzanians) seems no nearer. The Africa Forum, an advisory body of...

The real winners of the constitutional referendum were the hardliners of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. They now have a document that enshrines ZANU-PF's supremacy, whatever happens...

Leaders of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) are poised to benefit personally from the expected bonanza from the development of Nacala port, Africa Confidential has learned....

The referendum on 16 March takes place less than a month after the starting gun was fired. No one doubts a favourable result but only the turnout will...

Malagasy have been waiting a long time to have their electoral say but on 5 February, the electoral commission postponed the long-awaited presidential election from 8 May to...

After declining previous invitations, on 15 February President Michael Chilufya Sata announced his maiden trip to China would finally take place in April. China has invited the President...

According to a mining industry expert, much has changed since the September 2011 election of President Michael Sata and the Patriotic Front government. ‘Under the MMD [Movement for...

In the last few years, Chinese builders have won contracts for more than 18 government-funded infrastructure projects for roads, stadiums‚ schools‚ hospitals‚ airports and public buildings in Botswana....

President Ian Khama has been slow to stamp out shadowy deals between Chinese investors and government institutions, in particular the murky business of the 500 million pula (US$62...