African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved $71.8 million grant and $3.1 million loan to the Mozambique government for the construction of an asphalted 70km...
Benin’s newly elected president, Patrice Talon, is planning to stimulate economic growth from the bottom up by 2021. Last week, he launched a five-year programme that...
Ethiopia on Saturday, 17 December, inaugurated a hydroelectric dam that aims to double the country’s electricity output, but which critics say is a threat to locals...
Engen customers in Rwanda can now purchase fuel, lubricants and other goods using MTN Mobile Money. With this launch, MTN Mobile Money customers will be able...
President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the need to review the ECOWAS Treaty in order to make the regional organisation more responsive to new national, regional and...
Patients have started trickling back to hospitals in Mombasa a day after the nurses’ union struck a deal with the government that ended a 10-day strike...
Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga’s lawyers have gone to court to challenge an election financing rule that could see him paying a a fine of...
The UN’s West Africa envoy says Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down when his mandate ends in January and would be “strongly sanctioned” if he...
Former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza’s daughter Valentina Guebuza has reportedly been shot dead by her husband, Zófimo Muiuane, in Maputo. Reports on Thursday said the incident...
The Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Johnson Asiama has urged mining companies in Ghana to support government’s vision to create an...
ECOWAS leaders will continue their mediation in the political impasse in Gambia at the weekend in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, chairperson of the...
The Nigeria Army on Wednesday said it had rescued additional 605 women and children during its operation in Sambisa forest. The Theatre Commander, Maj.-Gen. Leo Irabor,...
Participants at the 2016 African Economic Conference think there is future for smallholder farmers on the continent. They think African countries can use build upon the...
Herman J. Cohen Washington, DC — Writing for AllAfrica, Herman J. Cohen, who served as the top United States diplomat on Africa in the...
Africa is rising. According to the latest figures in the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, annual GDP growth rose to above 5% between 2001 and 2014....
Over the past two decades the telecommunications industry has been driven by new and faster technology, coupled with strong demand for connectivity – moving from the...
Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is claiming victory in the country’s general elections. Counting continues following Wednesday’s poll. The NPP bases its claim on...
Kenya has invited banks to submit proposals on how it can tap international markets for as much as $1.5 billion to finance a budget deficit and...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The first ever Africa Trade Week opened in Addis Ababa this week with the Economic Commission for Africa’s David Luke, urging participants...
UD Trucks has expressed interest in expanding and growing its business within Southern and Eastern Africa, citing “great expectations for the future of the brand within...
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