The Africa Report

With a 16-strong group of companies, including interests in insurance, airlines, banking and fuel distribution, Jimoh Ibrahim is now looking at doing business in neighbouring countries, including Ghana and Sao Tomé and Principe. He talked to The Africa Report about expansion, banking reforms 
and take-off for Air Nigeria.

Moroccan company, office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) will triple its production 
by 2020, a development that will strengthen its bottom line and commitment to food security, according 
to Amar Drissi, the state-run group's executive director for industrial operations.

A United Nations High Commission for Human Rights top official, on a weeklong trip to Zimbabwe, could end the visit with a fraudulent account on the human rights situation, civil society has claimed.



Ethiopia has been able to raise electricity coverage to almost half of the country, as the nation claims to be have one of the highest coverage on the continent.

Thousands of South Sudanese are fleeing Sudan, some of them leaving their possessions behind, as they fear an escalation of tension between the two uneasy neighbours, posing a logistic nightmare for authorities.

Nigerian police have prevented an attack on government officials by a member of the extremist Islamic group, Boko Haram, and arrested a terror mastermind.

The battle between the church and politicians in Uganda is getting hotter, amid revelations that the government was plotting an elaborate sting attack on religious leaders.