As Africa's cocoa producers face growing financial pressures, they have won backing from European Union MPs to open talks on a price pact as part of wider discussions...

The Zimbabwe dollar lost 40% of its value against its US counterpart over the weekend according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), the central bank. The combination...

Alexander Cummings, the leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC), is bringing in Cherie Blair, the senior QC and wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair,...

African states are facing 'a Catch-22 situation' as the war in Europe is driving up the cost of food and the cost of growing it locally, according to...

Plans by European Union states to buy billions of cubic metres of gas from Africa have been spelt out in a leaked document detailing the strategy due to...

President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to force out his deputy William Ruto could trigger further political instability ahead of national elections in August.

Ahead of the African National Congress's policy conference slated for the middle of this year, its leaders are backing a radically pro-business plan to redraw the role of...

South Africa's coal exports to the European Union have increased tenfold so far this month compared to last year as European utilities ramp up purchases amid efforts to...

As the finance ministers and bank chiefs meet top officials from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank over the food and fuel crisis sweeping developing economies,...

After tilting strongly in favour of Rabat's offer of 'limited autonomy' to the Western Sahara as an alternative to a UN-organised referendum, the United States and the European...