The world’s most valuable individual prize is not being awarded for a second year because no-one is deemed worthy of winning it.
Sudanese businessman Mo Ibrahim set up the $5m (£3m) prize for …

And Francophone Africa thinks its independent? Sanou Mbaye writes about the yoke of the CFA franc:
More appalling is the fact that France guarantees the CFA franc’s free convertibility into hard currency, originally …

A forthcoming book by a former Harvard researcher says Western interference with Africa’s most successful Aids prevention programme drove up HIV-infection rates and ended a dozen years of the largest decline in …

I SPENT March with a delegation of activists, entrepreneurs and policy wonks roaming western, southern and eastern Africa trying very hard to listen — always hard for a big-mouthed Irishman. With duct tape over my …

Nigeria’s former military leader Ibrahim Babangida has made clear his plans to run for president in next year’s election and for “IBB”, a self-proclaimed “Evil Genius”, to take such a decision can only be a …

Every day millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds leave Zimbabwe from the world’s richest diamond field. But none of that money reaches the country’s desperate poor. Who are the men plundering a …

Senegal, often held up as an African success story,
celebrates 50 years of independence this weekend, one of many
countries on the continent to mark a half century of
post-colonial life this year.
The country is commemorating the occasion …

Hundreds of billions that could have been used for poverty alleviation and economic development lost, finds new report from Global Financial Integrity
Africa lost $854 billion in illicit financial outflows from 1970 through 2008, according to …

A former government minister tells the inside story of how trickery, corruption, political plots, and a power vacuum are tearing apart this West African giant.
What’s needed now is a clean sweep of the administration to …

The Nigerian government has requested the withdrawal of criminal charges against Nuhu Ribadu, the former head of the anti-corruption agency.
Mr Ribadu faces charges of not declaring his assets while in office.
The request …