The island nation is positioning itself as the solution to Africa’s fragmented cluster of cross-border payment systems.

Tanzania has eight neighbours and belongs to an EAC trade bloc worth US$156.6 billion. How borders, Dar es Salaam port and ...

Can the development model followed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) be replicated by other small countries, or did it depend on a combination of exceptional conditions that few economies could ever ...

Conflict is rampant in many parts of Africa. Wikimedia Commons Conflicts in Africa vary in scope and intensity. They range from large-scale civil wars to territorial disputes, localised insurgencies, ...

Sudan's neighbours explained: seven borders, millions of refugees, the Nile dam dispute and Ethiopia's new war, and what it all means for Americans.

Nigerian journalists at the 2026 MTN Media Innovation Programme called for media coverage that goes beyond crises between Nigeria and South Africa A two-day summit at the University of Johannesburg ...

ON CAIRO ROAD, a bustling commercial strip in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, traders and shoppers once haggled over gadgets, furniture and other goods priced in dollars. For decades the greenback was ...

Police cooperation allows Beijing to expand its security role without formal alliances or a large military footprint, observers say From online-gambling rings in eSwatini to SIM swapping in Kenya and ...

China’s President Xi Jinping announced in February 2026 that from 1 May China would be granting zero-tariff treatment to 53 African countries. (That is all of them bar Eswatini, which supports Taiwan.