Africa is being pulled deeper into a web of wars and insurgencies just as the United States and China intensify a high-stakes ...

External shocks over the past decade-plus have repeatedly stress-tested the fiscal resilience of African countries, but for the most part, governments across the continent have found a way through.

Luanda, Angola. Photo by Shawn Clark via Unsplash. A new update to the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, estimates that from ...

Chinese exports to African countries could top $200 billion in 2025, as Beijing remains locked in a trade war with the United States. Chinese customs data shows that $122 billion worth of goods were ...

As a number, 150,000 is usefully round. In May 2024 Tom Perriello, then America’s special envoy to Sudan, told Congress that anywhere between 15,000 and 150,000 people might have died in the 13 months ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Chinese lending to Africa nearly halved to $2.1 billion in 2024, the first annual decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country shifts to selective, strategic ...

Al-Shabaab, which means “The Youth” in Arabic, appeared in the early 2000s as the militant youth branch of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a coalition of Sharia courts that briefly ran southern ...