With foreign licensing rules in place, Kenya’s KCB hopes to be a first mover in Ethiopia. But stringent regulations may make ...

Guaranty Trust Holding Company becomes West Africa’s first bank to list ordinary shares on the LSE, signalling rising ...

Zimbabwe’s Nelson Chamisa returns to politics with plans to launch a movement to challenge Kudakwashe Tagwirei or VP ...

South Africa and Sudan are in the hot seat this week as the US Congress takes up a flurry of bills ahead of the summer recess ...

The attack on the western Malian city of Kayes on 1 July indicates that Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is establishing itself in the ...

David Maraga made history when he nullified the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Now, as Kenya reels from protest ...

Disillusioned by the US retreat from multilateralism, 2019 Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo calls for an ...

Eswatini government says the five deportees sent from the US are in jail and pose no threat to the country or citizens.

The Cameroonian’s tenure begins as Afreximbank embarks on an ambitious plan to grow its total assets and guarantees to $250bn ...

After backlash, Serigne Fall Gueye, director of the Grand Théâtre, reverses ban on wigs, weaves and bleaching imposed under ...

US President Donald Trump hosted a lunch for African leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the ...

From Nigeria to its future new base in Kenya, the development financier seeks to mobilise trillions of dollars in African ...