A free trade area across the African continent, if successfully implemented, could significantly boost economic growth and improve living standards at a time of rising geopolitical tensions and climate change, indicates a study by the International Monetary Fund in a study.

The African Organization of Petroleum Producers (APPO) is preparing plans to establish the African Energy Bank to finance oil and gas operations in Africa and avoid external financing limitations.

Many South Africans want Britain to return the world's largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, which sits on the royal scepter that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday (May 6).

A delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (AP-OEACP), headed by its President, the Mozambican Rita Geremias Sithole, met with the Angolan head of state, João Lourenço, to discuss issues within the scope of the attributions of that intercontinental organization.

The President of the Board of Directors of the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone, Manuel Francisco Pedro, was elected member of the Board of the World Organization of Free Zones, at the end of the 9th World Conference of Free Zones, held in the United Arab Emirates.