While companies around the world are more downbeat about the economic future, optimism has increased in Africa, according to the results of a new survey

Leaders of North African countries involved in the Arab Spring have sought to reassure the world's elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to democracy

The surging information and telecommunication sector will spur Kenya’s economic growth this year, according the World Bank

The African Union and India have launched an action plan aimed at enhancing closer cooperation in various fields of development

AfrAsia Bank Ltd, has reached an agreement to invest a 35 per cent equity stake in Zimbabwe's Kingdom Financial Holdings Ltd valued at US$9.5mn