Though none of the region’s cities are in our top five, Abidjan, Lagos and even Cotonou could very well feature next year.

Over at the UN, the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa hosts the 2025 Academic Conference on Africa from 1 December ...

Eskom’s six-month profit of R24.3bn is more than an accounting win. It is the first real test of whether the utility’s ...

Springfield Group’s founder went from poster child for indigenous upstream ambition to the businessman at the centre of ...

Claimed election winner Issa Tchiroma Bakary landing in Gambia doesn’t end Cameroon’s electoral saga – it means that it has ...

The second edition of our ranking – with a few surprises – confirms the dynamism of the continent’s municipalities. From Cairo to Casablanca via Cape Town, cities are innovating in infrastructure, ...

The chair of Access Holdings and Coronation leverages a vast network of family, business and political allies.

After boycotting the G20 summit in Johannesburg, the US president now says he will not invite South Africa to the forum’s ...

Though US President Donald Trump’s threat to freeze migration from Third World countries may be more bluster than law, it ...

Shots have been heard around the electoral commission, with the outgoing president saying he has been arrested.

Soldiers say they stepped in to restore order, but the timing, confusion and President Umaro Sissoco Embaló’s own behaviour ...

The probe is moving slowly, fuelling speculation about internal betrayals and deep dysfunctions within the security forces.