Angola adopts law limiting power of future presidents

The raid is the latest outburst of violence after months of military mutinies

The Congo Research Group’s report is based almost entirely on public records such as land titles and incorporation documents

The Zambian High Commission in SA has dismissed reports that Dr Kenneth Kaunda has died, saying he is likely to be discharged from hospital on Thursday

Jose Eduardo dos Santos left Angola early in July, five weeks after a month-long stay in Barcelona for medical tests

Funder says the southern African country must fill in ‘critical information gaps’ over $2bn of secret government loans

The continent’s major economies are trying to stimulate growth after months of drought, austerity drives and confidence issues

Appeals court judges find more consideration should be given to the former Ivory Coast leader’s age, his health and the six years he has already spent in ...

The world’s top cocoa producer has endured successive waves of army mutinies this year that have cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in pay-outs to soldiers

Questions about the integrity of the country’s electoral authority, and its impunity, mean a heightened risk of violence next month

Mismanagement, misspending and corruption have conspired to keep the Inga 3 project at blueprint stage, writes Tom Nevin

With President Joseph Kabila refusing to step down, and elections unlikely to be held this year, people are taking to the streets to demonstrate

The war-torn South Sudan, where half the population is already facing hunger, sees its crops and pastures destroyed by the invader

A toxic social media campaign is potentially explosive in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned, and election violence a decade ago left ...

IMF delegation arrives in Mozambique to follow up on a damning external audit into loans that were not cleared through parliament

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than half of all mobile money services worldwide, with 140 active products across the region, according to a report

Heavily armed police officers in Harare ‘brutally crushed our peaceful demonstration’, the opposition MDC party’s Lovemore Chinoputsa said