When fully operational, the Africa Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) will boost intra-African trade by 60%.

Addis Ababa said it did not know how the offending chart got there and has replaced it with the logo of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Jean-Jacques Cornish says Britain's behaviour in the Indian Ocean Chagos Archipelago does not wash today.

Jean-Jacques Cornish says age has been a determining factor in a number of recent African political contests.

Peter Mutharika faces tough competition from his vice president Saulos Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera, who has been endorsed by former president Joyce Banda.

It’s yet to be officially proclaimed but with all the votes collected at the IEC results centre, the ANC is victorious albeit with a reduced majority.

At least 27 parties are demanding that the independent audit be conducted by another body other than Stats SA.

Former Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete said South Africa’s democracy had come of age.

Electoral workers in Mozambique battle epic challenges registering voters for elections in five months’ time.

Jean-Jacques Cornish say after covering and observing elections all over Africa, Europe and the United States, he has seen election fraud in action.

If South Sudan’s power-sharing government, delayed by a further six months, does not materialise, the R14.5 billion deal with South Africa could evaporate.

Cardinal John Onaiyekan said that the people are at the mercy of kidnappers and bandits waging war on them.

The military wants a 10-persons transitional council with seven of its members in uniform.

This is another illustration of the fear President Yoweri Museveni has of losing the next election to the pop-singer-turned-MP.

Mozambique made international news in April as the victim of two killer storms, but earlier in 2019, it got attention as a hotspot for terrorists in the north of the country.

Ambassador to the world organisation Jerry Matjila said South Africa had considered voting against the resolution drafted by a handful of European powers and the United States.

Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji heads the 48-member SADC team being deployed throughout all nine provinces to ensure that the general election is free and fair.

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said she wouldn't discuss South African government policy on negotiating ransoms because that could jeopardise the lives of hostages.