Repeated coups, political assassinations and a civil war in the nation nestled below Senegal on Africa's Atlantic coast have weakened its law enforcement.

The oil revenues should be transforming the country, although property prices in Angola's capital Luanda are now among the most expensive in the world, this means little to the average Angolan.

Nigeria is stepping up its efforts at checkmating the threat posed by Boko Haram and it’s off shoot, Ansaru responsible for deadly waves of bombings across the country's north.

The picture of the five presidents holding hands is a powerful one which might send tremors in Washington, Paris, and London.

The familiar post-colonial legacy of puppet rulers serving the interests of former colonial powers is well known in the Central African Republic.

This week the world's foremost wildlife experts are gathering in Bangkok, Thailand, for the 40th anniversary meeting of the annual Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The international NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has released two reports, examining land transactions in West and Central Africa, which have implications for what is happening across the continent.

Ahead of upcoming elections in July, Robert Mugabe has been pushing the contentious empowerment policy, which gives a 51% stake in foreign-owned banks, mines and other commercial operations to local Zimbabweans.

With memories of the ethnically fuelled violence in 2007 still fresh in people's minds, Kenyans found a way of carefully and transparently organizing a peaceful election.

One of Africa’s famous scholars Calestous Juma has claimed that tribalism is damaging the march to democracy across Africa.

There has been much written about the "brain drain" of educated Africans seeking a better life abroad due to post some kind of ongoing post colonial turmoil in their home countries.

If British consumers were shocked by the extent of tax dodging by Google, Starbucks and Amazon, what must Zambians make of this weekend's revelations about Zambian sugar; which made record profits in 2012 and is expected to exceed 400,000 tons of sugar production for its European and African markets.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recently announced that America wanted "an open, transparent dialogue about what more we can do to help the people of Somalia realize their own dream". The head of Somalia's transitional government, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud welcomes the move.

African activists have called on their leaders to ban genetically modified organisms at their latest summit in Addis Ababa.

The war between Malian government troops and alleged al Qaeda sympathizers has taken a dramatic turn with the intervention of France, and the resulting hostage crisis in neighboring Algeria, which has spread the conflict wider.

The war between Malian government troops and alleged al Qaeda sympathizers has taken a dramatic turn with the intervention of France, and the resulting hostage crisis in neighboring Algeria, which has spread the conflict wider.

After an early New Year commitment to setting up a demilitarized buffer zone along common territory, it looks like the key issue of getting Sudan's oil to flow again, is being resolved.

They’ve been a feature of Chinese and Arab economic development for years, but African countries have been slow to develop their own sovereign wealth funds.

A negative image of Africa in the UK is harming efforts to raise food aid in the continent says leading UK charity Oxfam.