Raising taxes on alcohol and tobacco is a viable financing model to combat lifestyle diseases, as the high cost of treatment continues to burden low-income individuals suffering from non-communicable ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have seized a second airport in east Congo amid fierce fighting. Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas if fighting resumes as both sides prepare for a ...

Rwanda has exempted mobile phones from taxes to boost digital penetration but that feel-good factor is no more worth the government hiking taxes on cigarettes and fuel as wellRwanda has announced a ...

Roam Electric, Jet Motor Company and Ampersand are also among the homegrown EV companies leading the continent’s e-mobility ...

A changed landscape in Botswana's Mababe Depression is now a hot spot for wildlife year-round.

Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta says the current crisis in eastern Congo can be brought to an end through close coordination ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

The city, bordering Rwanda, is a regional centre for the mining business ... conglomerates - instead thousands of individuals toil in open pits that honeycomb the landscape, or underground, in ...

As M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo advance towards Bukavu, tensions rise between regional armies. Rwanda-backed M23 faces Burundian troops, escalating risks of regional conflict.

The DRC, with its vast territory and abundant mineral wealth has become a key battleground for external powers whose interests in the country’s resources have exacerbated internal strife.

Burundi and Rwanda are embroiled in escalating tensions in eastern Congo, as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance. Burundi, ...