Dangote’s refinery goes public, and so does his ambition

Passing the Constitutional Amendment Bill to extend his term (CAB3) has been exceptionally costly for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa whose popular support has never matched that of his...

The 4 November municipal elections may confirm the end of African National Congress dominance without producing a new hegemon (AC Vol 67 No 11). South Africa’s governing centre...

The push by African economies to accelerate investment and growth is centred on the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) ambitious plan to mobilise under-utilised domestic resources and countries’ efforts...

As UN officials were preparing to release their Independent Fact-Finding Mission’s report on 3 September with more damning reports of the United Arab Emirates arming of the Rapid...

Questions over how President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s government intends to bring its foreign debt-service burden down to an affordable level still hang over the IMF executive board’s decision...

A Brussels court has ordered 14 people linked to Semlex’s passport contract with the government of Congo-Kinshasa to stand trial after a nine-year investigation into the company’s opaque...

African governments’ political campaign for a UN-led tax system has become a legalistic fight over definitions, statutory obligations and treaties after the latest round of talks in New...

Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko has emerged as a key intermediary between Madagascar and Russia as the country’s military-backed authorities reshape their political and foreign alliances. President of the National Assembly...

Opposition leaders Rigathi Gachagua and Edwin Sifuna are touring the United States to court diaspora support and funding for their bid to unseat President William Ruto next August.

The South African National Defence Force’s Special Forces command is facing its gravest public challenge since apartheid: not a battlefield reverse, but allegations that serving soldiers abducted an...

On 1 August, heavy fighting broke out at Shererina, a Tigrayan military stronghold on the Ethiopia-Sudan border – arguably the most serious confrontation between the Tigray Security Forces...

The truism that Kenyan political parties are almost exclusively personal vehicles has been spelt out in technicolour by the fate of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) less than...

Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit has been working hard for King Mohammed VI (M6) this summer, reassuring voters that the general election on 23 September will feature candidates of...

For the second month running, Tunisians have taken to the streets against President Kaïs Saïed, in what the Forum Tunisien pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux (FTDES) says...

The confrontation between the state and its opponents has entered a more dangerous phase in the wake of last October's elections, when security forces killed hundreds of protestors...