Africa's arms market is likely to grow by 50 percent over the next five years, analyst Stephane Konan said at a four-day trade show in Ivory Coast. The African market in defence represents only a drop of water in relation to the world market: 42.6 billion dollars out of 1,731 billion in 2017, Konan told AFP, citing figures from the Stockholm I ...

It has featured among complaints by French yellow vest protesters and in populist Italian rhetoric: Africa's CFA franc currency has become an unexpected hot topic on Europe's political fringes. When a list of unofficial yellow vest demands went viral in December, some observers were surprised to see scrapping the CFA franc included alongside ...