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From a solitary jail cell east of Johannesburg, Mozambique’s former finance minister is fighting extradition to the United States. Manuel Chang was arrested on Dec. [read more…]

Bottles of Sprite spin along a gleaming new production line at the Coca-Cola plant in Maiduguri, not far from the onetime headquarters of Boko Haram, [read more…]

The World Bank Group recently published the annual report “Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs,” the 15th edition since its inception. The report examines how [read more…]

Africa is the continent least responsible but most vulnerable to climate change, which means that Beijing’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, the largest development plan of [read more…]

Africa is facing a looming debt crisis, say leading development economists. “Almost 40% of sub-Saharan African countries are in danger of slipping into a major [read more…]

Accra, Ghana In a junk-strewn lot on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital, weary-looking street vendors gathered to hear their leader Vida Tangwam passionately protest their [read more…]

Government action is essential to agricultural growth that would combat poverty in Africa, experts say. Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’s annual report, released [read more…]

The best time to invest in Africa is now. However, foreign investors have not moved into the continent as quickly as expected because foreign investment [read more…]

After more than two decades of improving mine safety since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s progress has stalled with an increase in gold-mining deaths. [read more…]

At what point do we stop calling Theresa May’s approach aid and start calling it profiteering under a different guise? The next time a British [read more…]