Africa - once considered the lab for Chinese companies' reach outside - is being relegated into a destination with too many risk factors. Read more »
Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda were among the fastest growing economies in the world during 2005-2009, said the International Monetary Fund. Read more »
Representatives of American high-tech industries say a law intended to promote peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo could result in a "de facto embargo" of minerals mined in ... Read more »
Only one person out of 33 passengers and crew members survived a United Nations plane crash at the main airport in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more »
Promises made by leaders to increase their investment in agriculture to ten per cent of their national budgets have been met by only eight out of 53 countries. Read more »
In the hope of strengthening its agricultural production, the Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 hectares of arable land to a company owned by South African farmers. Read more »
Stakeholders in the mining sector have signed a code of conduct designed to reduce fraud, but there is still concern about illegal mining and the military's role. Read more »
A United States ship carrying military weapons belonging to Kenya is still being held in Angola, since the beginning of March, the U.S. has revealed. Read more »
Equatorial Guinea must amend laws that hinder effective civil society mobilisation and activism inside the country, says a report by advocacy group EG Justice. Read more »
Cameroon and Gabon have put in place a Permanent Joint Commission on security issues as a way of solving cross-border problems and have also sought ways of reactivating an ad hoc ... Read more »
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