A champion of African gas extraction, Claudio Descalzi – an Italian physicist from Milan – has turned the continent into his ...

What seemed like a landmark victory for the rule of law in Uganda, delivered by the country’s highest court, lasted only a ...

Amid a family feud over $435m in dividends, Oriental Energy has told a federal court that Muhammadu Indimi bought out his ...

Baowu Steel Group, the world’s largest steel producer, is investing $6bn in Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project, which is ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted South Africa was ‘confiscating’ land and ‘treating certain classes of people ...

Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa’s new book, translated from French to English by Emma Ramadan, ‘Living in Your Light’, goes straight to the source of Taia’s life: his late mother, M’Barka Allali Taïa.

He has the background and the skills to stand for the job, yet Benin’s economy and finance minister will not be putting ...

The US is feeling pressure to intervene after its embassy in Kinshasa was attacked on Tuesday by anti-M23 offensive ...

Former election-chief-turned-rebel-leader Corneille Nangaa has gone from overseeing Congo’s contested 2018 election to leading a powerful insurgency against the DRC’s President Félix Tshisekedi.

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count ...

Where the Wind Comes From’, a film debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in the US, captures the exuberance of being young ...

Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...