Deepening hostilities between Kigali and Kinshasa were the subject of several closed-door meetings at African Union summit on 17-18 February in Addis Ababa. Yet on 19 February, the...

The political crisis following President Macky Sall's decision to postpone February's presidential election will be the subject of formal and informal discussions at this weekend's...

Treasury officials say they are working on measures to stabilise the Zimbabwe dollar, including by linking its exchange rate to hard assets such as gold and creating a currency boa...

Following the death of the founder and chief executive of Access Bank Herbert Wigwe in a helicopter crash on 9 February, its directors moved quickly to appoint Bolaji Agbede as the...

President Macky Sall's postponing of the presidential election scheduled for 25 February risks plunging Senegal into a deeper political confrontation.

President Kaïs Saïed is piling on the pressure for Tunisia's central bank to become the latest African bank to provide billions of dollars in direct budget finance, a mov...

The refugee crisis in Sudan and wider regional instability could prompt tens thousands of people to move north, trying to cross into Europe, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissione...

The prospects for a United Nations-backed plan for Kenya to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to combat armed gangs have receded after the High Court in Nairobi ruled that it w...

Italy's far right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she understands that blocks on development in Africa are at the heart of the migration story.

The coordinated move by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to leave the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is the latest blow to Ecowas's credibility and the gr...