Africa

Gabon is set to stop exporting raw manganese by 2029, as part of a national strategy to boost local industry and reduce dependency on unprocessed resource exports. The government announced …

Sudan’s new prime minister dissolved the caretaker government Sunday, a day after he was sworn in before the chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Army Chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. …

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, pressure is mounting on Justice Minister Constant Mutamba after explosive allegations over a multi-million dollar no-bid contract and suspicious fund transfers. On Tuesday, lawmakers …

The UN Security Council on Friday extended by one year the arms embargo and individual sanctions imposed on South Sudan, where recent violent clashes have raised the specter of a …

Sidi Ould Tah who formerly served as Mauritania’s finance minister was elected during a vote Thursday at the bank’s annual meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He replaces Akinwumi Adesina, a …

Health officials and representatives from various organisations met in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday to discuss the shortage of life-saving HIV/AIDS medication. Louis Gérald Gilles, member of the country’s Transitional …

The 13th international meeting of high level security representatives from over a hundred countries got underway in Moscow on Wednesday. On the sidelines of the summit, Russia’s Security Council Secretary …

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and infected more than 2,500 over the past week, authorities said on Tuesday. Most cases were reported in Sudan’s capital, …

Elon Musk’s Starlink telecoms business will not be given special dispensation by South Africa to bypass the country’s Black ownership requirements, Communications Minister Solly Malatsi said on Tuesday. Malatsi was …

Human rights group, Amnesty International, has accused the M23 rebels fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of possible war crimes. In a report published on Tuesday, it …