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Billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe’s campaign for the presidency of the African National Congress goes mainstream.

While pushing hard on diplomacy and security in Africa, Russia is also using economics to entrench its influence. The results are mixed.

Murder and unemployment are back to highs last seen at the end of apartheid, international criminal cartels have infiltrated government – and worried political and industry leaders are now blaming a l...

Almost 85% of West Africa’s regional food trade slips under the radar, an OECD report has found – yet informal trade is contributing to food and economic sovereignty across the region. An exploration ...

The Post traveled to Burkina Faso to shed light on President Ibrahim Traoré’s remarkable reinvention — from obscure junta leader to political icon.

Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for.

The acting US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs has cautioned African states that deepening ties with China, especially on security, could jeopardise their relations with the US.

The European Commission wants to strengthen the link between foreign aid and domestic priorities like energy and migration.

The acting Assistant Secretary for African Affairs says ‘breaking glass’ at government agencies will ultimately improve US-Africa ties

Pakistan said Chinese fighter jets were used to respond to military strikes by India and that it has kept Beijing fully informed of its action as tensions in the disputed Kashmir region escalate.

As insurgency intensifies and civic space shrinks in the West African state, a different kind of battle is unfolding online where AI-generated images, deepfake anthems and algorithmic fervour have tur...

The demography of both Lebanon and Syria is in flux, after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Thousands of people are now on the move, inside

L’ONU se prépare à une réorganisation majeure, selon un mémo qui a récemment fuité. Cette révélation inquiète tout le personnel des Nations unies, de New York à Genève, où 500 fonctionnaires ont même…

Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...

President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had raised the idea with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, who rejected it.

Donald Trump plans to axe America’s contribution to the African Development Fund, the concessional arm of the AfDB. The decision, announced just days before the bank’s annual meeting in Abidjan, could...

South Africa will probably get kicked out of a trade preference program that got a last-minute reprieve when Trump backed down on tariffs

Trump ties, a West African business dynasty and an abandoned tin mine – what to know about Massad Boulos, the US president’s new Africa adviser.

The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.

The chat’s contents, which were obtained by The Atlantic after its editor in chief was added to the Signal group, provide a revealing look at private conversations between top Trump administration off...

Mossad and the Lebanese Shia terror group have turned the continent into their covert battleground, locked in a conflict that has simmered out of sight for years. From Douala to Abidjan, through Bangu...

Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”

Decades of diplomatic efforts, after the forced deportation of 2,000 Chagos Islanders more than 50 years ago, seemed to be on track to a resolution after a deal to transfer sovereignty was announced i...

A former employee of Randgold and co-founder of the consultancy Iventus Mining, Mamou Touré plays a key role in renegotiating Mali’s mining contracts. This go-between is at the centre of a stand-off p...

Cet ancien major de l’armée et ex-présentateur de Fox News va prendre, à 44 ans, la direction d’un ministère doté d’un budget pharaonique de 850 milliards de dollars annuels et employant quelque trois...

Gulf countries invested over $100bn in Africa between 2012 and 2022, leveraging the continent’s opportunities to diversify their oil-dependent economies. Nearly half of those investments came from the...

On The Intercept Briefing podcast with Tech Policy Press’s Justin Hendrix: how a new inaugural era of class unity in tech and politics is taking shape.

Right up to its collapse, the regime lied about its role in the drug’s production and distribution

Hours earlier settlers riot in Palestinian villages setting property on fire; decision is a reversal of a major policy action by former President Joe Biden's administration; Settler leader calls for I...

Analysis: As a battleground for foreign rivalries, the role of external powers in any diplomatic breakthrough remains crucial.

With Shell writing down a $400m investment, and Chevron backing out, questions arise about Namibia’s hopes to become a frontier oil producer.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Les deux multinationales minières, toutes deux très présentes en Afrique, ont discuté jusqu’à octobre dernier d’un projet de fusion, selon la presse anglophone. Une opération qui interroge et qui, si ...

Mozambique is considering restructuring its public debt after the government lost about 42 billion meticais ($658 million) of revenues in post-election unrest, the southeast African nation’s new finan...

Property price surge in the capital has rendered house and apartment prices unaffordable for average citizen

Pressure to impose sanctions, a raging war and a looming Trump presidency still have not quenched the bloc’s thirst for Russian gas.

The Yemen-based Houthis signaled a pause in their months-long attacks on commercial ships following a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Rio Tinto Group and Glencore Plc have been discussing combining their businesses, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could result in the mining industry’s largest-ever deal.

The US State Department demanded that Rwanda stop using GPS jamming equipment in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where millions of people displaced by conflict are desperate for aid.

The US failure to effectively support the mission it pushed for has left the Kenyan police on the ground in an impossible Catch-22 situation.

In post-Assad Syria, the Alawite community, long associated with the fallen regime, faces deepening insecurity and sectarian anxiety.

If the United States have made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) mainstream through their extensive use of such armed aircraft in their wars in Afghanistan, Iraq or Somalia, among others, it ...

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Mali is set to get 750 billion CFA francs ($1.2 billion) from miners in the first quarter this year following an overhaul of its mining sector.