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Growing discontent and demands for democratic reforms in one of the world's last absolute monarchies will be in focus when Swaziland holds a parliamentary election on Friday.
The International Monetary Fund on Monday opened the way to work with Zimbabwe's new power-sharing government but said the country's leaders first need to make clear commitments to rescue the...
African singing star and anti-poverty campaigner Angelique Kidjo has accused Western aid donors and big businesses of exploiting poverty in Africa to promote "neo-colonial" interests.
Kidjo, from...
Economic gains which debt forgiveness has brought Africa could be erased by soaring food and fuel prices, the African Development Bank's president warned on Friday as he announced its plans to...
African governments trying to help their populations cope with rising food prices should carefully target measures to help poor families and avoid waste, IMF Managing Director Dominique...
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday revised up estimates it made in April for global growth this year and next, but coupled it with stern warnings that demand was slowing sharply in major...
Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations who met in Japan this week did the bare minimum for Africa and must not be allowed to backslide from even that, as they have in the past, former UN head...