Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has pledged that the government will maintain the macroeconomic policies that have underpinned recent economic stability, saying the focus for the remainder [...]

Ethiopia lost an estimated 24.6 billion US dollars through trade mis-invoicing between 2013 and 2022, highlighting a persistent drain on domestic resources at a time when the [...]

Global current account balances increased further in 2025, driven primarily by China, where the current account surplus recorded the largest widening in at least two and a [...]

Artificial intelligence (AI) could allow developing countries to do in a decade what might otherwise take a century – provided that governments act swiftly to close the [...]

Russia significantly expanded its agricultural trade with Africa in the first half of 2026, showing the continent’s growing importance as a destination for Russian food exports amid [...]

The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening security, trade and technology partnerships across Africa, saying deeper cooperation in logistics and communications is critical to unlocking [...]