Bloomberg Zimbabweans streamed to polling stations to vote in the first election since the end of Robert Mugabe’s fractious 37-year-rule. A credible vote would help provide the southern African nation with a foundation to begin rebuilding its battered international reputation and an economy largely laid to ruin during the latter half of Mugabe’s reign. While the campaign has been mostly ...

Bloomberg Total SA raised its production target for the second time this year, accelerating its emergence from the oil slump as rising prices deliver a surge in profit. While the return of US sanctions on Iran derailed a major gas endeavor of the French energy giant, the move also boosted oil prices just as Total reaped the benefits of project ...

Bloomberg Protests at some South African power stations amid deadlocked wage talks are stopping coal from getting to plants and threaten to force the country’s electricity provider to implement rolling blackouts. “The national grid is expected to be constrained this evening due to instability at several power stations due to acts of intimidation,” Khulu Phasiwe, a spokesman for Eskom, said ...