Midway into his second term, President João Lourenço has spent more time trying to consolidate his grip on the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de...

Mozambique has reached a US$220 million out-of-court settlement with three more creditors in its $2 billion hidden loans case, which was heard last year in London’s High Cour...

South Africa’s transition into coalition country politics – its most important shift since the liberation election of 1994 – happened so fast that most of the pla...

Many Malawians feel the book has now closed on the campaign by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Martha Chizuma to bring dozens of Malawian and foreign businesspeople and p...

The Government of National Unity deal is a return to form for Cyril Ramaphosa who helped negotiate the first post-apartheid coalition government 30 years ago. The difference this t...

After its worst election in 30 years of power, the African National Congress (ANC) saw its vote share tumble to 40.2% and faces choices which will usher in a new era of coalition p...

On 30 May, the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, appointed Sengezo Tshabangu as Leader of the Opposition, in what many are calling the end of opposition politics in Zimbabwe&rs...

Making significant progress towards restructuring its debts, three-and-a-half years after defaulting on its Eurobonds, Africa’s second-largest copper producer is struggling t...

At last an end is in sight for Zambia’s tortuous negotiations to restructure US$13.4 billion in foreign loans, after international bondholders met on 4 June to approve the ex...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rewarded some familiar faces after approving the licensing of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink system in Zimbabwe ‘through its sol...