Southern Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law extending a preferential trade program for Africa through December 31, effective...

South Africa's Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen said on Wednesday that he would not seek re-election in the party's leadership...

Eight months after the death of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu, on 5 June 2025 in South Africa, the question...

Zambia's government hopes it can agree on debt restructuring terms with Afreximbank, even though the matter is under arbitration, a...

China's role as a leading financier to developing nations has shifted over the ‌past decade, with new loans to poorer countries falling...

Initially composed of four members—Brazil, Russia, India, and China in 2006—with South Africa joining in 2011, BRICS, from 2024 to 2025,...

Chinese lending to Africa nearly halved to $2.1 billion in 2024, the first annual decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, as...

Malawi's energy regulator hiked the price of petrol and diesel for the second time in four months on Tuesday to...

The Khoikhoi (or Khoekhoe) are one of the oldest ethnic groups to have settled in southern Africa, and along with...

The Mbunda ethnic group is one of the oldest human groups in the Zambezi Basin, primarily distributed between southeastern Angola...