Ghana has jailed opposition heavyweight Chairman Wontumi for 20 years over illegal mining, marking the country’s most ...

China’s Huaxin has rebranded Lafarge Africa as HBM Nigeria and is racing to add capacity – with the assets earmarked for an ...

New airspace bans and financing restrictions target the army-aligned government, yet Washington’s leverage remains doubtful ...

The vast project promises to link West African gasfields with regional markets and Europe, but financing and construction ...

Less than a year after leaving the presidency of the African Development Bank, the Nigerian has bounced back into a string of ...

President Trump does not have the political bandwidth or personal inclination to undertake constructive diplomacy in Africa, ...

As oil prices climb above $90 a barrel amidst escalating hostilities between the US and Iran, African economies face mounting ...

In a memo to its employees on 21 July, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which uses the oil pipeline between Niger and Benin, said it was suspending operations at its Agadem oil site in ...

Barely 5% of Cameroon’s gold production is thought to pass through legal channels. Yet the rest still leaves the country, ...

Opposition parties are cautiously welcoming President Samia’s plans to steer the reforms that have eluded the country since independence.

The Congolese head of state is expected to preside over a high-level debate on the control and management of natural ...

A sustained campaign by environmentalists and resistance from local communities threaten Kenya’s plan to break ground on its first nuclear power plant next year. Does the government have the political ...