Uganda’s central bank cut its benchmark policy rate by 0.25 percent to 9.75 percent on Monday in a further sign of subdued ...

Lower benchmark rate signals relief for borrowers saddled with costly loans and reverses a slowdown in demand for credit.

Touadéra is on a three-day State visit, during which he will join his host Museveni to mark Uganda’s 62nd Independence ...

In 1985, Golden Sounds, a band primarily of Cameroon’s Presidential Guard, released an album whose title track, Zangalewa, ...

Gabon, condemned like the other ‘coup boys’ including Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, quickly reset its relations with the West ...

An outbreak of the disease at one of Uganda's overcrowded prisons could become a major concern for health authorities.

The medical community that has been the first line of defence in the fight against the Marburg virus in Rwanda is paying the ...

Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde left office on Monday, weeks after speculation swirled around her tenure. Ethiopia’s ...

Cameroon has become the latest country to receive an office donation from the Chinese, reflecting Beijing’s continued policy ...

In a recent appearance before a parliamentary committee, Security Cabinet Secretary, Prof Kithure Kindiki, admitted to the ...

Tax experts say a weakness in the definition of illicit financial flows is helping looters make away with money from Africa, ...

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