In his latest essay, historian Fabrice Riceputi looks back at the abuses committed by Jean Louis Marie Le Pen, the French ...

Thousands of dignitaries from across the Muslim world will converge in The Gambia this weekend for the 15th edition of the ...

As El Nino bites in Zimbabwe, millions of citizens are forced to rely on food assistance. But the distribution of the ...

Thirty years ago, when Nelson Mandela and the ANC swept to victory in South Africa’s first democratic elections, Imtiaz ...

Uganda’s parliament has described sanctions against Speaker Anita Among by the UK government as an attempt to penalise her ...

Many of the 1.5 million members of South Africa’s largest trade union federation COSATU will support the governing African ...

The AU is pushing for an Africa-centric credit rating agency to address chronic low ratings from major agencies like S&P, ...

Journalists across Africa are targeted, says Angela Quintal, the head of Africa programme at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), adding that ‘as old and new laws are used to criminalise ...

The ambitious acquisitions of Oando, the Nigerian energy company that once styled itself as the largest integrated energy ...

Ex-minister Ukur Yatani and former Governor Mwangi wa Iria are the latest prominent leaders to be arrested over corruption ...

Namibia’s ruling SWAPO Party says the European Union may influence the outcome of the 27 November presidential elections ...

The French oil and gas giant, which has a strong African presence, is mulling a strategic move away from Paris’s CAC40 to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).