Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, has processed more than CNY8 billion ($1.2 billion) through China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), highlighting the growing role of the Chinese yuan in trade between Africa and the world’s second-largest economy.
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South Africa’s latest attempt to defuse mounting diplomatic tensions with Nigeria over renewed xenophobic attacks has suffered a setback after President Bola Tinubu reportedly declined to receive a special delegation sent by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Today, Africa CDC releases the Operational Toolkit for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B. It is a deliberately practical document. Treatment algorithms. Liver fibrosis assessment. Clinical decision support for a nurse in a district facility where the nearest specialist is hundreds of kilometres away.
South Africa has taken a major step towards expanding local-currency trade in Southern Africa after the Angolan kwanza became the second settlement currency on a regional payment system that had operated exclusively in rand for 13 years.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has raised concern over the dominance of the informal sector in West Africa, warning that nearly 90 per cent of economic activities and at least 60 per cent of the region’s workforce remain outside the formal economy, a situation lawmakers said is undermining economic growth, job…
To repair soil is to repair relationships. The future does not lie in oil and war; it lies in the land, in agriculture, in production and in putting wealth at the service of the people.
The African Development Bank has finalised a loan of up to $15 million for South African vaccine manufacturer Biovac, adding to a wider international financing package intended to build Africa’s first end-to-end oral cholera vaccine facility.
The Zambian government has restricted unrefined copper exports to force foreign mining and industrial companies, especially Chinese firms, to build local processing plants.
Years of research into aquatic ecosystems, student mentorship and international scientific collaboration have earned North-West University (NWU) researcher Prof. Nico Smit one of the highest honours in aquatic sciences in South Africa.
Overview Since 28 February 2026, when US and Israeli strikes on Iran triggered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, African economies