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Ghana plans to shorten mining licence durations and mandate direct revenue-sharing with local communities in its most sweeping mining law reforms in nearly two decades, details of which were announced by a government minister on Wednesday.

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals is eyeing a gold pre-payment deal from its Zambian operations to strengthen its balance sheet.

Togo plans to build more forward operating bases in the northern Savanes region amid ongoing cross-border terrorist attacks. In 2024, South Africa’s Paramount Group was contracted to build additional FOBs. The government is now in talks with a French company for the next phase.

Italy's Saipem (SPMI.MI), opens new tab is confident that a $20-billion liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique for TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab will restart by the end of the summer

The International Monetary Fund is waiting for some more data before it can firm up its assessment on Senegal's debt situation and still needs to reach an agreement on key remedial measures with the country.

Greece has invited Libya's internationally recognised government in Tripoli to start talks on demarcating exclusive economic zones in the Mediterranean Sea, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said late on Wednesday.

President Paul Kagame has replaced Rwanda's long-serving prime minister, naming the deputy governor of the central bank, who was once pardoned for a corruption conviction, to the role responsible for the government's day-to-day operations.

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday convicted two men of leading Christian-dominated militias in attacks on Muslims in the Central African Republic in 2013 and 2014 and sentenced them to up to 15 years in prison.

Mellitah Oil and Gas will work with U.S. construction consulting firm Hill International to manage a project which aims to boost Libya's gas output,

U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a proposed class action by eight Malian citizens who sought to hold Hershey, Nestlé, and five other companies liable for child labor on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

A court in Mali has rejected Barrick's appeal to release four employees arrested last November, marking the latest turn in a long-running dispute with the government over taxes and mine ownership.

Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco's autonomy proposal for the disputed Western Sahara region.

Brazil will request to intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel's actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

The president of the World Bank group, Ajay Banda, on Saturday said he believes that, within the next ten years, Mozambique will become an electricity hub or southern Africa.

United States lawmakers have voted to advance a bill that proposes reviewing the U.S. relationship with South Africa due to objections over its foreign policy and potentially imposing sanctions on South African officials.

Mozambique is seeking to prosecute the country's main opposition leader, Venancio Mondlane, over civil unrest that followed a disputed election last year, a document presented to Mondlane by prosecutors showed.

Nigeria's Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu's plan for more than $21 billion in foreign borrowing to plug shortfalls in the 2025 budget.

Côte d’Ivoire has launched a 450 billion CFA franc ($800 million) initiative to accelerate tech innovation and expand its startup ecosystem.

Thieves burgled the official residence of the Ghanaian Ambassador to Nigeria in Accra, making away with television sets, gas cylinders, and bags.

Chinese state-owned conglomerate  to develop large soybean, corn farms in Angola as the world’s second-largest economy seeks to secure long-term supply amid a trade war with the US.