Inward FDI into Mozambique has shown year-on-year growth between 2009 and 2014.

For a continent with 54 countries, it is not unusual for Africa to see multiple elections in the average year. However, 2015 is set be “remarkably stacked”, according to analysis from South Africa’s Standard Bank, with nearly one in three countries across the region headed for major parliamentary or presidential polls.

Kuwait's new FDI law aims to facilitate investment with the creation of a body that will oversee FDI into the country, cutting time and costs for investors. 

Heavy flooding in central Mozambique has proved a setback for two of the country’s newest special economic zones. 

As Nigerians prepare to go to the polls, fDi talks to pundits on what the different outcomes might mean for foreign investment in the country.

Concern about the impact of Nigeria’s postponed elections on FDI is being tempered by optimism. 

The recent free fall in oil prices is creating winners and losers across the globe, and Africa is no exception. Some of the consequences of cheap oil seem obvious: the oil exporting economies in Africa will take a hit, while the importers will rejoice.

As the mining industry gathers for the annual Mining Indaba conference in South Africa, Zambia is the latest country in the region to become embroiled in disputes over natural resource regulation with companies operating within its borders.

Following the announcement on 9 February that Africa’s biggest economy would postpone a hotly contested presidential election for six weeks, Nigeria’s embattled President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be shifting some of the blame for the delay onto the country’s electoral commission.