Decades after the collapse of the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), the minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega ...

ECOWAS imposed heavy economic sanctions in the wake of the coups, fraying diplomatic ties and forcing the juntas to look for new routes to transport goods in and out of the landlocked states.

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

No matter the vast amounts of money South Africa threw at them and the development of so-called “border industries” to create employment in these territories, they remained development backwaters and ...

Raises C’ttee To Float Private-Sector-Led Nat’l Flag Carrier …Woos Private Investors To Improve Port Facilities LAGOS – The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Marine and Blue Econ­omy, has ...

save South Africa, recognised these Potemkin states, despite their possession of the symbols of statehood in flags, armies and uniforms, various levels of administration and their elaborate trappings, ...

Donald Trump has promised the biggest deportation in US history, with his new border czar saying he'll target "the worst, ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, patients face a 'wild west' where treatments for snake bites cost the Earth or don’t work ...

The USA has imposed sanctions on part of Gabon's fleet. Over 100 ships flying the country's flag are estimated to belong to Russia's so-called shadow fleet. Essentially, these are tankers used to ...

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) said ...