Africa

DRC to pay Barcelona $46m for 'Heart of Africa' promotion on shirts

DRC has agreed to pay more than $46 million in a shirt sponsorship deal with Spanish football club B

Global challenges threaten development goals, G20 chair South Africa warns

G20 chair South Africa has warned that abandoning the rules-based global order and declining coopera

Ghana charges oil regulator ex-chief in $28 million graft case

Ghana's anti-graft agency has charged a former head of the petroleum regulator and six others over a

Togo votes in local elections with borders temporarily closed

Voters are electing 1,527 municipal councilors in 117 municipalities of West African country, accord

France hands over last military bases to Senegal ending presence in West Africa

The pull-out ends the French army's 65 years in Senegal after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye demand

Nigeria opposition leader Atiku quits former ruling PDP party

In a letter to the party’s leadership, Abubakar Atiku cited the party’s departure from its found