Barclays Africa has announced that it plans to list its NewGold exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in the coming months.

President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to the UK on Monday 8 June 2016 for a 10-day holiday according to official statements. However, his seemingly impromptu absence from key engagements as well as the emergence of a communique...

Over the past 12 years, we have seen growing demand for risk management support from decision makers in African and Middle Eastern companies considering acquisitions, partnerships...

It seems like a number of militant groups are mushrooming in the Niger Delta of late.

Long-time opposition leader and stalwart of Congolese politics, Etienne Tshisekedi has died in Brussels aged 84.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has declared Deputy President William Ruto as the winner of the presidential election held on 9 August with 50.49% of the vote.

Cement prices rose in Nigeria by 44% in August shortly after Dangote Cement hiked its own price. A 50kg bag of cement used to cost about US$5 in the country. Now it costs about US$7.

Nigeria's GDP growth slowed from 3.52% to 2.31% in the first quarter of this year when demonetisation caused a severe cash shortage.

There is a new opportunity for investment in Nigeria's power sector.

There are eight more weeks till the end of the year. They will be busy. This week, the statistical service is scheduled to release new inflation data. Less than a week after that the finance...

In the run-up to Ghana's 7 December 2016 elections, Songhai Advisory conducted a survey from among Ghanaian voters to gauge popular sentiment in what many are predicting will be a closely contested race...

Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that a full declaration of results within 72 hours of polls closing tomorrow, 10th December is likely.

Nigeria's general elections are now four months away and campaigns are ongoing. The ethnicity and religion of the candidates for the two main political parties have been the most prominent...

Nigeria's central bank has announced a new foreign exchange policy to increase the supply of dollars to people intending to pay for overseas tuition, medicals and traveling.

As France goes to the ballot box today to choose between 39-year old centrist Emmanuel Macron of En Marche and France's potential first female leader, Marine Le Pen of the far –right Le Front National...

He was the first law graduate of a free Congo in 1961 and was for a long time, a loyalist of President Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997), holding the roles of Minster of Interior and Minister of Justice for example.

Yesterday, Ghanaian voters went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect incumbent president John Dramani Mahama or pass the responsibilities onto Nana Akufo-Addo.

Voters in Cote d'Ivoire head to the polls on Sunday 18th December. 1,337 candidates from 39 political groupings (including independents) will compete for 255 positions in 205 constituencies.

Nana Akufo-Addo was declared victor of Ghana's closely-fought presidential race on Friday 9 December 2016 at 20.50 by Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission

In fulfilment of Article 67 of the Constitution, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo presented his maiden State of the Nation address to parliament on 21stFebruary, 2017.