Cash-strapped Africa will need "frugal innovation" based on simple, local solutions to deal with serious and growing problems, from climate change to a surging youth population and ... Read more »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the continent needs to build a vibrant and innovative medical supplies manufacturing capability that meets the health needs of ... Read more »

Oil is Nigeria's main export. A cloud of uncertainty now hangs over U.S.$62 billion in outstanding taxes and royalties owed Nigeria by major oil operators in the country. The ... Read more »

With lockdowns across the globe, flight and travel restrictions, tourism came to a halt for the most part of 2020 and started making a tentative recovery in the last quarter of the ... Read more »

A total of 4,652 mining exploration licences were issued by the government in the financial year 2020/2021, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has revealed while tabling the 2021/2022 ... Read more »

The governments of Tanzania, Uganda and international oil firms, French Total E&P, and China's Cnooc have signed off four key agreements for commercialisation of the proposed East ... Read more »

Rwanda is set to benefit from multi-million debt service relief from the International Monetary Fund for an initial period of six months, the IMF has said in a statement. The ... Read more »

Efforts by the government to break a stand-off between Dinde villagers in Hwange and a Chinese investor hit a brick wall with the villagers insisting the coal mining project should ... Read more »

The government has been forced to reintroduce its defunct Agricultural Finance Corporation after financial institutions grouped under the Bankers Association and resolved not to ... Read more »

Lesotho is a mountainous and fairly water-rich country, but suffers from a lack of clean drinking water due to inadequate sanitation. In recent decades, with the construction of ... Read more »