Despite a faltering economy and a devastating 2011 earthquake, Japan’s Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba told the follow-up meeting to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Marrakech,...

China is Sierra Leone’s largest foreign investor. However, you would not know that from the chaotic state of Sierra Leone’s mission in Beijing, which has had to change...

Kuniko Ozaki is the presiding judge in next month’s trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague of Kenya’s so-called ‘Ocampo 4’.

Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh is one of Vietnam’s most experienced diplomats. He was posted to Vietnam’s permanent mission to the United Nations for 14 years, leading...

The five-year term of Pratibha Patil, India’s first female President, ends on 25 July. Her final foreign tour on 27 April–7 May took in South Africa and the...

South Sudan’s government and ruling party have welcomed the billions of dollars in promised investment that resulted from President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s April visit to Beijing, but they...

Border clashes between Sudan and South Sudan brought an early close to Salva Kiir Mayardit’s trip to China, originally due to end on 28 April. After a session...

South Africa, China’s largest trading partner on the continent, looks set to be the first African nation to join the 20 other countries and regions that have swapped...

The 28-29 March New Delhi summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries debated establishing a BRICS development bank – the South Bank –...

Essar’s deal for rehabilitating NewZim Steel (formerly the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company) is teetering on the brink of collapse.