Africa, World

The High Court in southwestern Congo has indicted a member of an influential family on charges that he was responsible for the forced disappearance...

Just two weeks after Chad and Sudan signed a landmark peace accord their two governments have accused each other of supporting fresh attacks into...

Guinea’s powerful trade union groups are considering whether to go ahead with a general strike at the end of March and risk a government crackdown,...

Banks are the privileged partners of the Central Bank and the main media for the implementation of its monetary policy. In its capacity as Central...

Definition The CFA Franc is the common currency of 14 African countries which are members of the Franc Zone, namely : • Benin, Burkina, Côte...

Issue of currency The Central Bank has the sole right of currency issue throughout West African Member States member States. ...

Political tension hit a new high in Zimbabwe on the eve of crucial general elections at the weekend in which an embattled President Robert Mugabe...

A parliamentary election will be held in Zimbabwe on Saturday, along with a presidential election on the same day. The election is for both the House...

Sexual violence against women is rampant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but the majority of perpetrators, especially in "no-law" zones, go...

Jocelyn Dube teaches at a primary school in the mining town of Bindura, 80 km north of the capital, Harare. She is a single parent of a four-year-old...