Italy's new right-wing government is at the centre of a row over illegal pushbacks of boats carrying asylum-seekers and economic migrants that could engulf the wider European Union.

The slow pace of investment in renewable energy in Africa should have been one of the biggest climate finance issues at the UN COP27 summit but was overshadowed...

That the UN's climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh has been popularised as the 'African COP' owes as much to the strong African focus of the negotiations as...

The world's biggest tech companies – including Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and Tesla – buying tin, tungsten and coltan from Central Africa face a supply chain crisis after evidence...

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) was forced to scrap its flagship Team Energy Africa initiative, days before its launch at COP27, after being embarrassed over the...

The global downturn will hit Africa's economies harder than any other region according to the latest forecast from the International Monetary Fund: average growth in Africa is set...

Fresh plans to restructure debt in 54 developing countries facing a surge of repayment demands were mooted by multiple officials at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings...