By Ebenezer YALLEY Cross-border payments have become a convenient form of service for trade facilitation, scaling traditional modes of payment. Data compiled by Statista shows that in 2023, the total ...

HARARE, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Friday called for improved border efficiency ... including both soft and hard infrastructure, to enhance intra ...

His words echo the larger frustration of a continent grappling with the paradox of cementing regional integration while battling closed borders. The 2024 Africa Visa Openness Index, launched recently ...

The military action was overshadowed by Trump's announcement that he imposed 25% tariffs on goods being imported into the ...

A few months ago I was on the Sudan-Chad border, covering the civil war and famine that are devastating the Sudanese people. Likewise, the impoverished Sahel of West Africa — countries like Mali ...

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

Anyango’s basketball journey began in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. At the time, she was in Primary Seven, preparing for ...

Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated industry upside down. Their favored customers are pregnant women needing ...

U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS after more than a year ...

AT a Niamey market, mother of five Rakia Abdou haggles hard for a sack of rice, a staple out of reach for many in Niger due ...