An upgraded trade deal between the European Union and Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelle is the first EU trade pact with African states to go beyond goods trade...

EU officials are getting increasingly edgy about China using multi-billion dollar investments in electric vehicle production in Africa to circumvent their tariffs on Chinese EVs. Brussels imposed extra...

Amid complaints that the continent’s industrialisation could be undermined by being excluded from the ‘design process’ of the European Union’s carbon regime, Hanan Morsi of the UN’s Economic...

EU foreign ministers have agreed to commit an additional €75 million (US$87m) to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission (AUSSOM) in Somalia, in a move that should...

The United States-Israeli-Iran war has handed Morocco’s Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) a commercial and strategic opportunity. It has raised US$1.5 billion through its first international hybrid bond,...

Ghana will become the first African state to conclude a defence and co-operation pact with the European Union on 23 March when the bloc’s High Representative for Foreign...

The European Parliament has heavily criticised the opacity in the EU’s Global Gateway infrastructure investment programme, particularly the lack of clarity over where the cash for projects is...

The European Commission has given its formal backing for Morocco’s controlled autonomy plan for Western Sahara, in a major shift of the bloc’s diplomatic stance. At a meeting...

Egypt expects to receive the remaining €4 billion of a €5bn macro financial assistance package agreed with the EU in 2024 in three tranches before the end of...