President William Ruto's decision to order some large and small foreign owned companies to leave Kenya has been met with growing concern and harsh criticism from his critics, who believe that the move will adversely impact the East African ... Read More
Angola is offering investors shares worth as much as $261m in Standard Bank de Angola, turning part of a stake seized from a former insurance tycoon into publicly traded stock, reports Business Insider Africa. The country’s Capital Market Commission has ... Read More
Botswana’s celebrated image as one of Africa’s strongest economic performers is rapidly losing its shine, after the Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Index of Economic Freedom recorded a sharp deterioration in the country’s economic freedom score. Botswana scored 67.7 points, a ... Read More
Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death after being convicted of drug trafficking and other offences, state-owned Al-Ahram reported. Khalifa was accused of being part of a criminal group that imported raw materials ... Read More
Foreign recruitment and external support networks are sustaining and expanding the civil war in Sudan by providing weapons, military technology and fighters, to the detriment of civilians, according to a UN-backed investigation, reports Al Jazeera. A report by the UN ... Read More
Niger has blamed France for inciting last week’s thwarted military mutiny, according to a government statement read on television on Friday and cited by Reuters and AFP. On 29 August, disgruntled soldiers attacked a strategic army base in Niamey and fired ... Read More
The UN General Assembly on Friday voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Aimed at ‘a more accurate representation’ of continental land ... Read More
A UN committee has called on countries to adopt comprehensive reparations for people of African descent, arguing that the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade continues to fuel systemic racism and racial inequality. It said governments have legal obligations to ... Read More
SA’s Esor Construction has launched a High Court case to claim more than M165m ($10.3m) for work on the Polihali Transfer Tunnel, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Esor is suing the Kopano Ke Matla joint venture and ... Read More
Mining firm Pula has filed an appeal to challenge the outcome of a $195m case for damages in a Tanzanian court against SA billionaire Patrice Motsepe and his affiliate companies. Pula and its Tanzanian unit sued Motsepe and his associate ... Read More
Niger’s military regime, led by General Abdourahamane Tchiani, faced its most significant challenge on 29 August since coming to power in 2023, notes Salah Ben Hammou, a postdoctoral research associate, Rice University, in The Conversation. ‘The episode came after a ... Read More
The High Court in Malawi has recently been faced with an extraordinary problem: one morning Judge Trouble Kalua granted an urgent interim application, without notice to the other side, only to hear a few hours later that the firm that ... Read More
‘Is there confirmed written or verbal evidence... to accuse him?' Lazatiana Razafimamonjy, lawyer for Madagascar’s former Senate president, Richard Ravalomanana, addresssing a court in Antananarivo before he was sentenced to 10 years of hard labour ‘In the past ... Read More
‘We have been too busy nursing our separate states to understand fully the basic need of our union, rooted in common purpose, common planning and common endeavour.’ Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister and President of Ghana Read More
The 1960 Wave: Known as the Year of Africa, 1960 saw 17 nations claim their independence from colonial rule. Read More
