Blackstone Group, the World's Largest Alternative Investment Firm is Pulling out of Africa

Investment firm  Blackstone Group LP  is scaling back its bet on Africa, almost five years after it made a commitment to spend billions of d...

President vows to probe Zimbabwe forces over crackdown

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed Tuesday to investigate security forces over their brutal crackdown on protesters, as he scramble...

Togo: Country Profile and Facts 2019

Togo Fact File Independence:  27 April, 1960 GDP:  $4.797 billion (2017) Population:  7.965 million Togo , officially Togolese Republic, is ...

Zambia: Country Profile and Facts 2019

Zambia Fact File Independence:  24 October 1964 GDP:  $25.5 billion (2017) Population:  15,972,001 Zambia , officially known as the Republic...

Outrage in Kenya as police officer caught on video brutalizing civilian

Police in Kenya are investigating an incident of a man in police uniform who was caught on camera stepping on the neck and head of a civili...

CAF: Hayatou, Amrani trial postponed to April 16

The trial of former  CAF  president Issa Hayatou and former secretary-general Hicham El Amrani was on Monday postponed by Egypt Economic Mi...