•Labour plans nationwide protests •MTN, others fear reprisals •Nigerians condemn attacks Advocate for Peoples’ Rights and Justice, a human rights...
• Anti-immigrant clashes kill at least seven • South Africans say immigrants “steal” jobs When he heard angry screams and...
A group headed by former al Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility for a suicide raid on U.N. peacekeepers...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday expressed shock and disgust at attacks on immigrants in neighbouring South Africa and said...
U.S.-firm Source California Energy Services (SCES) has completed financing for a 740 billion CFA francs ($1.2 billion) open-cast coal and...
Robusta coffee exports from Cameroon by end-October had reached 18,543 tonnes since the season opened on Dec. 1, up from...
Richard Ingleton, the global CEO of TNS, the multinational market research firm, has said that Nigeria’s economic growth trajectory will...
Nigeria will channel her Trust Fund in African Development Bank (AfDB) to help West African countries completely contain the scourging...
Chad expects to double oil production by the end of 2015 as new fields come on stream and has appointed...
UK-based firm Savannah Petroleum will invest $90 million in its project in Niger in 2015 after receiving a production-sharing contract...
Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s largest cocoa beans producer, harvested 1.74 million tonnes of the commodity during the 2013 and 2014...
Cocoa exporters in the Ivory Coast are fuelling market fears of potential supply shortages that have driven prices to 3-1/2...
It is impossible to guess whether world leaders have done enough to bring the Ebola epidemic under control, given the...
South Africa’s rand touched a fresh 8-month low against the dollar on Monday as the greenback extended last week’s broad-based...
The International Monetary Fund lowered Senegal’s 2014 economic growth forecast to 4.5 percent on Friday, from a projection of 4.9...