This year's rebound in commodity prices and the fact that Africa's public health systems have experienced far less pressure from the pandemic than initially feared are two glimmers...

Britain, which launched its grand foreign policy review this week, has become entangled in the long-running saga over whether trade deals with Morocco apply to products coming from...

Obsequies and judicial matters are set to dominate the agenda in South Africa this week. The country is debating the legacy of the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who had been a tar...

Africa will recover from its worst recession in half a century and reach growth of 3.4% in 2021, but long-term structural damage to the continent's economies is inevitable. That wa...

Treasury officials are basing their plans for debt-restructuring and another Eurobond issue on a rapid bounce back from the pandemic's hit on tourism and commodity exports – severa...

In Accra today (12 March), Parliamentary Affairs Minister Osei Kyei Mensah was to set out the details of Ghana's spending and borrowing plans for this year. A plan to have Trade Mi...

At first it was cryptic tweets from well-informed local commentators and the subject of discreet diplomatic conversations, and then reporters took up the search last week. Tanzania...

Some of Nigeria's most eminent cultural, diplomatic, business and religious figures warned on 6 March that the latest wave of criminality and violence was threatening the stability...

As more officials and politicians fall victim to the Coronavirus amid mounting local and international criticism of President John Magufuli's downplaying of the crisis, there are s...

Although National Unity Platform leader Bobi Wine dropped his Supreme Court challenge against the official declaration that President Yoweri Museveni had won 59% of the votes in th...