The United States welcomed Wednesday the conclusion of record trade agreements with Africa this year, totaling $14.2 billion, in the context of a struggle for influence with China on the continent. Nearly 550 new trade and investment agreements have been signed, ... Read More

Visitors to Kenya from across the world will no longer require a visa from January, President William Ruto said on Tuesday. Ruto said his government had developed a digital platform to ensure all visitors would receive an electronic travel authorisation in ... Read More

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might have emerged victorious from a bruising vote on his flagship Rwanda migration policy, but the bitter divisions that risk turning his party into a "circus" mean any respite is likely to be short lived. A ... Read More

The United States intends to resume security and development cooperation with Niger provided it takes steps to restore democracy, a U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday after meeting the military leaders who took power in a coup in July. Assistant Secretary of ... Read More

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first of its kind deal signaling the eventual end of the ... Read More

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's contentious emergency legislation to allow asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda passed its first parliamentary hurdle on Tuesday. Lawmakers in the House of Commons voted by 313 to 269 in favour of the bill, which ... Read More

El Sisi Egyptians cast their ballots on Tuesday on the third and final day of a presidential election expected to give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a sweeping victory and a new six-year term in the absence of real competition. Many Egyptians have ... Read More

A record 49.5 million people are expected to go hungry in West and Central Africa next year due to a combination of conflict, climate change and high food prices, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The figure is 4% higher than ... Read More

Kenya is "out of the danger of over-indebtedness", claimed its president, William Ruto, on Tuesday, praising his economic policy despite public anger at tax hikes and subsidy cuts. The country of 53 million inhabitants, the economic powerhouse of East Africa, is ... Read More

Rwanda will hold presidential and parliamentary polls on July 15 next year, the election commission said Tuesday, with President Paul Kagame due to run for a fourth term in office. "Throughout the country, the polling date for the president of the ... Read More