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Treasury looking at alternatives to VAT hike
6th April 2025 National Treasury is looking at alternative revenue-raising options to a value-added tax (VAT) increase, but the chances of avoiding it are low,... →
Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs
4th April 2025 Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out... →
South Africa says Trump's tariffs cancel out AGOA trade initiative
4th April 2025 South Africa's government said on Friday that tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week effectively nullified the benefits African... →
China hits back hard in global trade war with tariffs on US goods
4th April 2025 China announced additional tariffs of 34% on US goods on Friday, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump that has... →
Congo rebels leave strategic town ahead of planned Doha talks
4th April 2025 Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have withdrawn from the strategic town of Walikale, describing the move as a... →
Trump slaps Lesotho with highest tariff of all
3rd April 2025 The tiny southern African kingdom of Lesotho has been hit with a 50% reciprocal trade tariff by US President Donald Trump, the highest levy of any... →
South Africa's white Afrikaner separatists want Trump's help to become state
3rd April 2025 A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist... →
IMF approves 2-year $4.5bn flexible credit line arrangement for Morocco
3rd April 2025 The International Monetary Fund approved a new two-year $4.5-billion flexible credit line arrangement for Morocco on Wednesday, the IMF said in a... →
Senegal lifts amnesty for some offences during deadly 2021-24 protests
3rd April 2025 Senegal's parliament has approved revisions to an amnesty law covering 2021-24 protests, paving the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths... →
South Africa business activity contracts for fourth month in a row – PMI
3rd April 2025 South Africa's private sector shrank in March for the fourth consecutive month, as output and sales declined amid economic uncertainty, a survey... →
Budget vote passes but key coalition partner dissents
2nd April 2025 South Africa's parliament passed the budget's fiscal framework on Wednesday after weeks of political wrangling, but the future of the coalition... →
Kenya retracts comment on China debt talks, sowing confusion
2nd April 2025 Kenya denied on Wednesday it had discussed debt restructuring with China's finance minister after amending a reference in a social media post... →
DA joins opposition push to hold up contested budget
2nd April 2025 The second-biggest party in South Africa's coalition government, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has joined the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters... →
Trump's tariffs will be negative the world over, says ECB's Lagarde
2nd April 2025 US President Donald Trump's planned tariffs will be negative across the world, with the damage depending on how far they go, how long they last and... →
Angola needs $240-million to clear hundreds of civil war minefields, official says
2nd April 2025 Angola requires $240-million from government or donor funding to clear nearly 1 000 minefields from the civil war that ended more than two decades... →
Gabon's old guard PM 'Bilie' challenges coup leader for presidency
2nd April 2025 Alain Claude Bilie By Nze enjoyed just seven months as prime minister of Gabon before a 2023 military coup. Now "Bilie", as he is known, is back to... →
Junta-ruled Guinea sets referendum for September in potential step to democracy
2nd April 2025 Guinea's military leader has set September 21, 2025, as the date for a constitutional referendum, according to a decree read out on state... →
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
2nd April 2025 US President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of... →
EFF seeks to block parliament budget vote
2nd April 2025 South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has written to the speaker of parliament seeking to block lawmakers from meeting... →
South African budget passes first test but path ahead still unclear
2nd April 2025 South Africa's contested budget passed its first test in parliament on Tuesday, but its future path remained uncertain as the two biggest political... →
DA to oppose budget until written deal is reached
1st April 2025 South Africa's two biggest political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA) were yet to reach... →
Sudanese on Nile island in capital recount paramilitary repression
28th March 2025 Residents of Sudan's Tuti island at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile have emerged from paramilitary control to speak of hardships... →
Congo doubles salaries for beleaguered army amid rebel advance
28th March 2025 Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent bid to boost morale as... →
Kenya sends former PM Odinga to defuse South Sudan crisis
28th March 2025 Kenya is sending former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to South Sudan as a special envoy to help defuse a growing rift between President Salva Kiir... →
South Africa producer inflation at 1.0% y/y in February
27th March 2025 South Africa's producer inflation was at 1.0% year on year in February from 1.1% in January, statistics agency data showed on Thursday. The... →
South Africa shifts to FDI inflows in fourth quarter, central bank says
27th March 2025 South Africa recorded foreign direct investment inflows of R7.5-billion in the fourth quarter, compared to outflows of R3.2-billion in the third... →
Trump names conservative media critic as US ambassador to South Africa
27th March 2025 US President Donald Trump has named conservative media critic Leo Brent Bozell III as US ambassador to South Africa, the president said on social... →
Kenyan MSS soldier reported missing after gang-linked incident in Haiti
27th March 2025 An officer from the Kenyan multinational security support mission was reported missing in Haiti on Tuesday after an incident involving gangs, the... →
US urges South Sudan president to release VP Machar, who is reportedly under house arrest
27th March 2025 The United States on Thursday called on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release his rival First Vice President Riek Machar who was reportedly... →
Zimbabwe president fires army chief ahead of planned protests
27th March 2025 Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday's dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say,... →
Egypt's GDP growth at 4.3% in second quarter vs 2.3% a year earlier
26th March 2025 Egypt's GDP growth rate increased to 4.3% in the second quarter of its 2024/25 year compared with 2.3% in the same period a year earlier, the... →
Renewed fighting in eastern Congo as neighbours try to revive peace process
26th March 2025 Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo battled militiamen allied with the government on Tuesday as regional countries... →
Sudan's RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say
25th March 2025 A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to... →
South Sudan's VP Machar accuses Uganda of violating arms embargo
25th March 2025 South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the country with armoured... →
Congo lab testing confirms deadly disease outbreak was malaria
25th March 2025 Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was malaria,... →
African blocs expand mediation team for Congo conflict
25th March 2025 Southern and Eastern African countries have expanded a team of former heads of state overseeing efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern Congo,... →
Kenya has applied for new IMF lending programme, finance minister says
24th March 2025 Kenya has applied for a new lending programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to factor in unused money from the current programme,... →
Angola to end east Congo conflict mediation role, presidency says
24th March 2025 Angola will step down from its position as a mediator between parties involved in an escalating Rwanda-backed rebel offensive in eastern Congo, the... →
Congo rebels dismiss ceasefire calls, capture strategic town
20th March 2025 The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't... →
Ethiopia PM rules out war with Eritrea over sea access
20th March 2025 Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that his government would not seek conflict with longtime foe Eritrea over access to the Red... →
Sudan army close to taking control of Presidential Palace from RSF, state TV says
20th March 2025 Sudan's army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, state TV reported on... →
