Chinese exports to Africa rose by 3.5 percent, totalling $178.76 billion, while African exports to China increased by 6.9 percent to reach $116.79 billion. As a result, Africa’s trade deficit ...

Kenya's flower industry is being ravaged by pests, leading some flower farmers to rely more heavily on toxic pesticides ...

China’s imports from Africa rose to US$116.8 billion last year, up 6.9 per cent compared to 2023, driven by gold demand and agricultural products, which slightly narrowed the continent’s trade ...

Some experts believe the currency swap will support bilateral investments, enhance market efficiency and financial stability, promote broader economic cooperation between the two countries, and ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. By Abdi Latif Dahir Abdi Latif Dahir ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Fashion, beauty and home sales in South Africa rose by 2.5%, with sales growth in the last eight weeks constrained to 0.9%. This was impacted in part by temporary delays in product flow arising ...