Chinese firms are involved in more than half of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s critical mining projects, up from fewer ...

Africa’s next consumer growth frontier may lie beyond its biggest cities, as companies look to peri-urban areas and smaller ...

As militarised commercial drones hit the capital, expelled ambassadors and Red Sea posturing threaten to drag East Africa ...

Congress on 30 September cleared seven more ambassadors to Africa, slowly restaffing a decimated US diplomatic corps on the ...

With Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania behind schedule, African football’s governing body is lining up a plan B it publicly denies ...

West Africa’s refinery boom is long on ambition and short on supply. London’s Good Delivery rules keep industrial miners loyal to Swiss refiners.

Eye-watering profit margins in Australia are driving Sinaloa syndicate chemists into the African bush, where they exploit isolated terrain, Asian chemical imports and local corruption to cook ...

Ten Boeing freighters position the continent’s leading carrier as Africa’s air cargo gateway, with next-generation Boeing 777 ...

Fiscal reforms have helped revive three gas discoveries made decades ago, but their start-up dates leave Nigeria LNG facing a feedgas gap as its long-delayed Train 7 nears completion.

With IMF financing still out of reach, Kenya is seeking nearly $1bn from the World Bank and AfDB. The loans come with reforms ...

A panel organised by the US embassy in Bamako laid the groundwork for a Washington push to gain access to Mali’s mineral ...

A new investigation reveals how private contractors, drone operators and foreign advisers joined the campaign to defend the ...