Many Africans feel America is lagging behind China and others in its engagement with their continent.

The IMF says it is ready to discuss working with Malawi to try to get its stalled IMF aid programme back on track.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s emotional homecoming from a convalescence in Cuba after cancer surgery is the latest theatrical twist of a showman.

Haiti’s ex-dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier says "solidarity" led him to return to his homeland where his name is still reviled by many.