The African National Congress (ANC) will gather for its policy conference in June, where the hierarchy will debate issues such as unemployment, land reform, the Constitutional Court and HIV/AIDS.

Asian and European industries are storming the African continent in search of arable land. Palm-oil represents a great opportunity as long as agricultural development

The Senegalese technocrat prepares to take over the World Bank's Africa portfolio from Nigeria's Obiageli Ezekwesili in the next few months.



They are generally better known for their vodka drinking than their none existent banana production, but Russians are mad about this tropical fruit.

As austerity measures are multiplied in northern countries, development funding in 2011 has hit rock bottom and affected their pledges.

Ethiopia's inflation, which has been on the rise over the past few years, slowed down to down to 32.5 per cent March from 36.3 percent the previous month.