The competition for influence will shape the continent’s future. Will the U.S. join?

We are now in a new era, dominated at home by a ferocious attention to cutting the budget deficit and the national debt.

From dismissive remarks about “sh*thole countries” to mocking Lesotho as a place “nobody has ever heard of” before slapping the tiny country with a 50 per ...

There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen – this seems to be the state of play in ...

Lome: President of the Togolese Republic H E Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema met Minister of State at Ministry of Foreign Affairs H ...

JOHANNESBURG - Democratic Alliance (DA) stalwart Douglas Gibson has been described as a fierce fighter for freedom in the ...

The Trump administration plans to bring white Afrikaners from South Africa to the United States as refugees starting next ...

Enoch Godongwana is fighting to keep the country’s finances and his job intact, as South Africa’s first coalition-era budget ...

Despite relatively strong scores on governance indicators, South Africa is one of the few countries on the continent where public support for and satisfaction with democracy remains notably low.

But if properly equipped, it will expose the behaviour of wealthy donor countries — both good and bad — to a more democratic process ... of Reality of Aid Africa and Matthew Simonds is ...

Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.