Zimbabwe expects a record 400m kilogramme tobacco harvest, but a policy to protect the ZiG threatens to erode growers’ ...

Critics say the move to shut out students from the two African countries reflects mounting political pressure to tighten immigration controls rather than a coherent visa strategy.

The City of Cape Town’s auctioning of the Good Hope Centre, a 1970s heritage landmark, and about 50 other properties to raise funds for service delivery, has angered South African human rights ...

Originally focused on the former Eastern Bloc, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is turning its private-sector model toward sub-Saharan Africa to provide economic opportunities for ...

Dangote Cement and the Nigerian government are pursuing an out-of-court agreement to resolve alleged tax liabilities and disputed pioneer status exemptions.

When Ghana’s three-year restriction on new domestic bond issuance quietly lapsed this year, it marked more than a technical policy shift. It signalled the country’s tentative return to the capital ...

One of Ethiopia’s most prominent opposition figures has stepped down from party leadership months before the country’s next national election, prompting debate about what the move signals for the ...

America’s latest war in the Middle East is already having an outsize effect on nearby Sudan and risks further complicating delicate diplomatic talks in the Horn of Africa.

Gabon steps up its courtship of the Donald Trump administration and private investors this week with a ministerial delegation ...

Real-time revelations of rot in the highest ranks of police have kept South Africans transfixed like a soap opera. Here is ...

From collapsing cocoa prices to a new $40m pasta plant in Accra, Olam is repositioning itself for a more challenging era in ...

Jacob Zuma has a large family and appears to enjoy working with them, but their political appointments often prove as ...