'If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.' ...

SA has secured its African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) benefits for another year, allowing duty-free access to US markets in 2025, says a Business Day report. Agoa requires US legislators to ...

Louren Skrywer (37), who worked for Julia Imene-Chanduru, then a senior Namibian diplomat in the US, is suing the now-ambassador to Switzerland. Upon arriving in the US in 2007, Skrywer claims she was ...

Nigeria's anti-graft agency has made its biggest ever seizure of assets. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced that it has taken possession of a large housing estate comprising ...

An estimated 350 000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found in a UK university collection. Dr Eva Namusoke spent 15 ...

French nuclear group Orano has announced that authorities in Niger have taken ‘operational control’ of its uranium mining unit, in an escalating conflict between the company and the country's ruling ...

If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people ...

President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has denied allegations that Zimbabwe influenced Namibia's recent poll. Five Namibian political parties last accused the ruling Zanu-PF of having influencing ...

President William Ruto has reaffirmed his administration's commitment to rebuilding the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to meet global standards. Following the cancellation of a previous deal with ...

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chair Patrice Motsepe on Friday pushed back against a $195m lawsuit brought against the company for allegedly breaching a non-compete agreement related to ...

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