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A number of African countries have recently been contesting decisions by credit rating agencies. Some have raised objections that the rating agencies lack understanding of…
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Atlantia Set to Sell $1.2 Billion Stake in Telepass Unit Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign…
View More West African Dishes Are the Top Trending for 2020, and These Dishes Are Why
The southern African nation asked for meetings on October 20 with the holders of three Eurobonds totalling $3bn to seek consent for a standstill until…
View More Zambia becomes First African Country to Ask Bondholders for Pandemic Relief
Every year, rainy season in Africa rhyme with drinking polluted waters, wading in stagnant feces-infested rainwaters and sleeping in unhealthy conditions. Yet we all have…
View More African Parliamentarians Alongside Their Populations
AU’s Moussa Faki Mahamat denounces ‘any attempt at unconstitutional change’, urges mutineers cease ‘use of violence’. The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have…
View More African Union, UN condemn arrest of Mali's Keita, demand release
SOUTH African scrum half Joost van der Westhuizen's brother shot dead two armed robbers who stormed a church. Pieter van der Westhuizen, 51,an ex-cop, was…
View More Brother of South African rugby star Joost van der Westhuizen shoots dead two men after they tried to rob churchgoers
The grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalised in an apparent “retaliation attack” after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was torn…
View More Enslaved African man’s grave in Bristol smashed in ‘retaliation attack’ over Colston statue
The president of South Africa has warned that the country’s coronavirus outbreak is going to get much worse, while announcing that lockdown measures are to…
View More South African leader says outbreak will get worse
Group of east African children found in Belfast last week ‘had travelled to Northern Ireland in a shipping container with up to 50 other people’,…
View More African children found in Belfast 'travelled in shipping container'
The leaders of Africa’s two superpowers, Nigeria and South Africa, are due to meet in the wake of recent xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg in which…
View More When two African giants meet
South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) has removed a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes that had become the focus of protests. The monument,…
View More South African Rhodes statue removed
Ivory Coast’s DJ Arafat, a well-known singer in French-speaking Africa, has died following a traffic accident, state broadcaster RTI is reporting. He was admitted to…
View More Top African star dies in motorbike crash, aged 33
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is mounting a legal challenge against an official report that concluded he had deliberately misled parliament over a…
View More S African president fights back in corruption row
The African Union has suspended Sudan’s membership “with immediate effect”, amid an upsurge of violence in the capital that has seen dozens killed. The pan-African…
View More African Union suspends Sudan after deadly violence