President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the elimination of the federal Department of Education. Where someone ...

China Development Bank has released a $254.76 million loan to Nigeria for a railway project linking the two northern states ...

Tanzania’s central bank left its key interest rate TZINTR=ECI unchanged at 6% on Wednesday, holding it steady for a third ...

The following scheduled economic events, equity and currency market moves may affect South African markets on Wednesday.

South African manufacturing activity fell for the second month in a row in December, a local purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey showed, as demand declined. The seasonally-adjusted PMI sponsored ...

Ghana’s consumer inflation GHCPIY=ECI rose for a fourth month in a row in December, to 23.8% year on year from 23.0% in November, the statistics service said on Wednesday. Government statistician ...

Zambia’s kwacha ZMW= has hit a series of record lows since the start of the year as a severe drought keeps the pressure firmly on the copper-producing Southern African country’s economy. Analysts had ...

Coloured gemstone producer Gemfields GEMGE.L, GMLJ.J has asked the Zambian government to remove a recently re-introduced 15% export tax on emeralds to avoid hurting the sector. The southern African ...

John Dramani Mahama was sworn in for a second term as Ghana’s president on Tuesday at a ceremony in the capital Accra, pledging to overcome public discontent by boosting the economy and creating ...

CNBC’s Pippa Stevens reports on surging power ...

This year will see several African countries consolidate their return to a growth trajectory in the aftermath of COVID, even as security challenges in the Horn and Sahel endure. I: The Continent will ...

Robots have transformed the way people work across multiple industries, but one that might not immediately come to mind is medical surgery. Chong Yew Lam has been a urologist for 16 years and is a ...