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Angolans voted Wednesday in an election in which the defense minister is the front-runner to succeed President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who will step down after 38 years in power in an oil-rich country beset by widespread poverty and corruption. About 9.3 million Angolans were...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta led challenger Raila Odinga by a significant margin in partial election results, Kenya’s election commission said Wednesday. The commission’s website showed Kenyatta with just over 55 percent and opposition leader Odinga with nearly 44...

Making his first official visit to Washington, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump would be a significant step in the international rehabilitation of the general-turned-politician who was kept out of the Obama White House. But,...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says Kenya has complied with international safety standards and can have direct flights to the U.S. after waiting for more than a decade. The FAA in a statement Thursday said Kenya has received a category 1 rating under the agency’s...

Nigeria lost between $50 billion and $100 billion in oil revenues to militant attacks on installations last year, the country’s petroleum minister said Tuesday. At their worst point, the attacks cut production to 1.2 million barrels a day – a loss of 1 million barrels...

South Africans will be hit hard at the pumps with petrol and diesel going up by up to 50 cents a litre, the Department of Energy has announced late on Thursday. The retail price of petrol (93 octane) will increase by 50c/l and that of 95 octane by 48c/l. The wholesale price of...

Moses M’Bowe, New Africa Business News- The day the new President elect Mr. Adama Borrow will be sworn in as the 3rd President of the Republic is a day to celebrate, January 19, 2017. The new government will usher in a new erra for The Gambia. Prosperity and new beginings...

Zimbabwe – which continues to get the majority of its manufacturing raw materials from South Africa – is pushing through a new mining legislation that will push large mining companies to compulsorily release excess mining ground, officials said on Friday. The southern...

Nigerian militants say they have again blown up an oil pipeline carrying crude for export from Shell’s Forcados terminal in the country’s south. It’s the third attack in eight days on the Trans Forcados pipeline network. The first came just hours after President...

About 300 peaceful protesters marched to the Chinese embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to urge the Chinese government not to build a railway across the Nairobi National Park and surrounding areas. Kenya is redoing its railway line from Nairobi to the port city of Mombasa,...