The African Development Bank (AfDB) has inaugurated the Debt Management Forum for Africa (DeMFA), a strategic platform aimed at addressing Africa’s escalating debt challenges. The forum was launched ...

Elon Musk's DOGE has announced it is terminating $881 million worth of Education Department contracts. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The second matter being kept off the agenda is even more fraught. The lengthy DSSI document uses wordy diplomatic turns of phase and has some deliberately ambiguous passages that could leave room for ...

The Horn of Africa country has been pursuing efforts to restructure its sovereign debt under a G20 initiative but talks with creditors have been slow-moving. Ethiopia has been struggling to clear ...

Trump suggests land justice in South Africa is a threat, but many US land seizures are all necessary and just.

Nigeria stands at a precarious economic crossroads, grappling with a ballooning debt burden, dwindling foreign investment, and an overreliance on external aid. As Africa’s largest economy, its ...

February 7, 2025 • The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general called for them to lay down their guns and agree to ...

7, but the latest had little to do with the United States. Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” ...

Keanu Ferreira launched Ferreira Fresh, a South African fruit and vegetable supplier, in 2016 from the back of a hotel kitchen in Johannesburg. The founders of Ziweto Enterprises have capitalised on ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...