Coloured gemstone producer Gemfields  has asked the Zambian government to remove a recently re-introduced 15% export tax on ...

South African actress and singer Winnie Khumalo has died at the age 51 after a short illness, her family has announced. The ...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has condemned the destruction of public and private infrastructures during the ...

Tanzania’s central bank left its key interest rate TZINTR=ECI unchanged at 6% on Wednesday, holding it steady for a third consecutive policy meeting, with an aim of keeping inflation below its target.

An evacuation order for Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills West neighbourhood has been lifted after authorities said a wildfire there had been brought under control. The LA Fire Department (LAFD) urged ...

Shell will write down around $400 million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern African country’s efforts to become a crude producer. Sh ...

Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fraudulently exported at least 150 metric tons of coltan to Rwanda last year, leading to the largest contamination of the Great Lakes Region's mineral ...

The platform of Angolan non-governmental organisations, the Human Rights Monitoring Working Group (GTMDH), on Thursday called on the outgoing president of Mozambique to protect Venâncio Mondlane and ...

Former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, as promised, returned to Maputo on Thursday morning after a two month absence. He arrived from the Qatari capital of Doha on a scheduled flight of ...

A prominent Mozambican NGO, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has accused the head of the Maputo department of penitentiary operations, Roque Xavier, of facilitating the illegal release ...

Albino Forquilha, the leader of PODEMOS (Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique), which is now the country’s largest opposition party, has pledged to uphold the PODEMOS side of its ...

Elias Impuire, a senior figure in the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) and a former deputy in the national ...