The African Development Bank (AFDB) has unveiled plan to invest $12 billion over the next five years under its new electrification programme.
The fund will...
Barclays’ plan to sell its African business and pull out of the continent are being hindered by South Africa’s political upheaval and credit-rating downgrades,...
The 2017 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance Weekend took place in Marrakech, Morocco.
This year’s event coincides with the Foundation’s celebration of 10 years of putting...
A lack of jobs and disillusion with political leaders may form a “toxic brew”, driving more young Africans to migrate or join violent extremist groups, billionaire philanthropist Mo Ibrahim’s foundation said on Friday.
The G20 finance ministers met last week in Germany to discuss critical challenges facing the global economy, from climate change to migration to humanitarian emergencies like the unfolding famine in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
At a popular Charismatic Church service in Accra, the capital of the West African nation Ghana, hundreds of worshipers gathered to pray. It’s a regular ritual as they seek spiritual solutions to their problems.
It's a familiar sight in parts of East Africa - starving children, desiccated carcasses and parched landscapes. 17 million face the threat of hunger. It's a man-made crisis.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
