South Africa’s Gold Fields raised its interim dividends on Friday as first-half profit more than tripled from a year earlier, ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has fired the country’s finance minister, state-owned radio announced, the seventh ...

Chocolate lovers face another run of price rises as a lag impact from the cocoa market hits retailers — but better news may ...

The South African rand was flat in early trade on Friday, as investors awaited U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s ...

The following scheduled economic events, company announcements, equity and currency market moves may affect South African markets on Friday. ECONOMIC EVENTS Inflation-linked bond auction COMPANIES ...

Rwanda’s central bank raised its key repo rate by 25 basis points on Thursday due to accelerating inflation that increases risks to the economic outlook, Governor Soraya Hakuziyaremye said. The bank ...

Shoppers at Checkers supermarkets in South Africa could soon be cruising the aisles with “smart” trolleys that let them know how much money they are spending and include in-built payment terminals, ...

Uganda has entered an agreement with the United States to take in nationals from third countries who may not get asylum in the U.S. but are reluctant to return to their countries of origin, the ...

Ghana’s cedi is expected to weaken against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while the currencies of Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia are expected to be broadly unchanged, traders said. KENYA ...

South African miner Exxaro Resources is considering boosting shareholder returns once it completes a deal announced in May to buy manganese assets as it will no longer require a big cash buffer to ...

Gift Usen cannot wait to have her hand. Born 25 years ago in Akwa Ibom, southern Nigeria, she has navigated through her life with only one fully developed hand. “I grew up to see myself with one and a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently invoked his success at resolving international conflicts, casting himself as a global peacemaker while his aides and some foreign leaders push for him to ...