South Africa's Nedbank is reviewing its 21.22% stake in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated ( BRVM: ETIT ), potentially ending a 16-year strategic alliance with the pan-African bank. The announcement, ...

No fewer than 349 lives have been lost in various disasters that occurred between September 2024 and May 2025 across Niger State.

From June 22-25, more than 2,700 U.S. and African public and private sector leaders gathered for the 17th U.S.-Africa ...

Namibia's annual inflation rate declined year on year but rose quarter on quarter in the first quarter of 2025, largely due to increased transport costs, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) reports.

Analysis - Water is essential at all stages of food production, from irrigation to food processing to washing fruit and vegetables before we eat them. Crops and livestock need it to grow, but water ...

Political and civil entities in Sudan issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 30, 2019 March of the Millions, stressing that "the will to change is still alive". The ...

The government ultimately secured a US$144 million loan from China Exim Bank to overhaul the city's water treatment network. The promised upgrades never came, but now, the city wants ratepayers to ...

Analysis - The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in north-western Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally important wetland (Ramsar site) and an Important Bird Area, a site ...

Several parties have called for an urgent investigation into the collapse of the Karsh El Fil mine in the Howaid area of Sudan's Red Sea state, while the foreign ministries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, ...

Members of Parliament are mulling supporting legislative proposal seeking to cushion them from invasion during heated protests in the country following the invasion of Parliament and other government ...

Analysis - Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South African jazz trumpeter Feya Faku had died while ...

High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has dismissed an application by the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) which sought to stop the chiefs-led Gukurahundi community outreach hearings.