South Africa’s national budget presentation was abruptly postponed on Wednesday due to a dispute within the country’s coalition government, marking an unprecedented delay in the post-apartheid era. National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza told lawmakers that such a postponement had never occurred ... Read More

Beset by debt and billions of dollars in unfunded priorities, African leaders have approved a fund to provide concessional lending to cash-strapped governments. The facility, known as The African Financial Stability Mechanism (AFSM) will be managed by the African Development Bank ... Read More

Fifteen different research projects being implemented by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are on the verge of “extinction” following cutbacks in America’s foreign aid agency spending.  The projects, which the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) is implementing as ... Read More

Mr Issifu Seidu, Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability has announced plans to localise climate change issues to help build resilience and sustain livelihood, especially for the vulnerable.  In that regard, he said the government would be working with relevant bodies ... Read More

Marco Rubio South Africa will host a meeting of foreign ministers from the G20 group of major economies later this week, but the chief diplomat for the world’s largest economy, the U.S., is skipping it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on ... Read More

Regional analysts are calling for the swift implementation of resolutions made at the recently concluded African Union (AU) Summit in Ethiopia. The summit was dominated by discussions on escalating conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan, ... Read More

The spokesperson for the United Nation's Secretary-General said Monday that the humanitarian situation in Sudan remains “extremely worrying." "We are especially deeply concerned about the impact of violence on civilians in and around the Zamzam displacement camp in Al Fasher, the ... Read More

Wilhelm Hugo (right), Coordinator, Sustainable Economic Development Cluster at GIZ Ghana, exchanging the signed agreement with Fatou Ndiaye, Chief of Mission, IOM Ghana The German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Ghana have signed a Memorandum of ... Read More

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Stéphane Roudet, has concluded a four-day visit to Ghana, engaging with government officials and stakeholders on key economic issues. At the end of the visit which lasted February 10-14, Mr. ... Read More

The leaders of Ethiopia’s Tigray region have called for the full implementation of the Pretoria agreement that ended the conflict between Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray rebels in 2022. The bloc released a report about the agreement during the African ... Read More