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Globalisation - is Africa being left behind?

As trade goes global, is Africa getting left out - again

• 30 mins

Sudan - can't pay, won't pay

Sudan has had to suspend its debt repayments to the IMF

• 29 mins

South Africa's 24-strike

24 hour strike by South Africa's biggest trad union COSATU; IMF stalemate on how to provide debt relief. Huge sale of Zimbabwe tobacco crop - and is World's largest exporter of tobacco.

• 28 mins

The Maputo development corridor conference

Investors have gathered to discuss much-needed development to the Maputo corridor

• 30 mins

The rand takes a nose dive

South Africa's currency takes a battering

• 29 mins

New problems at the African Development Bank

Problems at the African Development Bank continue

• 30 mins

De Beers' Angolan diamond deal

De Beers clinches a diamond deal in Angola

• 28 mins

Copper markets plunged into crisis

Crisis on the African copper markets as a Japanese rouge trader is exposed

• 30 mins

African economic slump 'over'

The UN Economic Commission for Africa has declared the continent's economic slump over

• 29 mins

East Africa's currency integration

East Africa moves closer to economic integration with new currency deal

• 29 mins

Zimbabwe tariffs scrapped

Zimbabwe does a U-turn on import tariffs following criticism from industry

• 29 mins

The value of Mandela's state visit

Did President Mandela's visit to London pay for itself?

• 30 mins

CPLP is born

A new commonwealth, CPLP, is born but African leaders insist on ditching sentimentality

• 31 mins

South Africa faces strikes

South Africa's clothing industry faces crippling strikes

• 30 mins

Sanctions bite in Burundi

The economic crisis in Burundi deepens as sanctions bite

• 31 mins

South Africa's drugs gangs

A report on South Africa's drug vigilantes

• 29 mins

Oil in Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea joins the African Petroleum Producers Association

• 29 mins

Zimbabwe's public sector on strike

Bodies pile up in the morgues as 60,000 civil servants go on strike in Zimbabwe

• 29 mins

Finance minister for a year - results announced

The winner of the African Finance Minister for a competition year is announced

• 29 mins

Benin's cotton corruption

Corruption exposed in Benin's cotton industry

• 29 mins

The Somalian economic mystery

How the Somali economy grew without a central government

• 29 mins

Sierra Leone's mining setback

Bauxite mining in Sierra Leone suffers a major setback

• 29 mins

World Bank and IMF agree debt relief

The World Bank and the IMF agree an African debt relief package

• 29 mins

Uganda's VAT strike collapses

The 10-day VAT strike collapses in Uganda

• 30 mins

Sanctions on Burundi to continue

Sanctions on Burundi are reinforced following its refusal to negotiate

• 30 mins

Zimbabwe's new labour union

The Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions is formed but is it a sweetheart union?

• 29 mins

Benin's budget under fire

Benin's budget is criticised by unions despite slashing government pay and allowances

• 30 mins

Resignation of Tanzania's Simon Mbilinyi

The resignation of the Tanzanian finance minster

• 29 mins

Hopes of an East African federation

East Africa finance ministers express their hope for the new federation

• 30 mins

Egypt's economic reform

Why Egypt's economic reform is looking good

• 30 mins