Africa

Tom Keatinge is director for the Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI. Kinga Redlowska is head of the Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI Europe. The increasingly unstable...

Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments. The...

In May this year, a seal at a popular beach in Cape Town, South Africa, bit five surfers in a matter of minutes. The surfers laughed it off with characteristic...

Trade between and has seen consistent growth for the past two decades, even though it lost a bit of steam a few years ago due to a and rising African .  ...

Nkurunziza Alphonse knows that every time he goes out to protest, he could get arrested, even detained for a lengthy period in Kampala’s maximum security prison. It has happened before....

“Corruption creates a lot of uncertainity in the country,” according to Someleze Sigudu, a 28-year-old South African, who, like many of his peers, has become frustrated by the uptick of corruption in...

To that end, Xi said Thursday that China would further open its market to African agricultural products, and that products from most of the world’s poorest countries, including 33 in...

Beijing, Brasília or New Delhi — those are the capitals Vladimir Putin would consider honest brokers in talks to end the war in Ukraine, the Russian ruler said Thursday. Speaking...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to create “at least” one million jobs in Africa as he seeks to position Beijing as the development partner of choice for the Global...

on Thursday hailed his country’s ties with the African continent, saying they were at their “best period in history.” He made the comments at the opening ceremony of the  — the...