Ruto strengthens hand as Nairobi summit marks Macron’s African swansong

Two international pandemic initiatives are in trouble due to disputes over access to vaccines and medicines in Africa. One, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), is trying...

The takeover of the Damang mine by Engineers & Planners (E&P) from South African-registered Gold Fields last month underscores the government’s resource nationalism drive but raises tricky legal...

As an act of economic diplomacy, Beijing’s offer of tariff- and quota-free trade to 53 African countries, coming into effect on 1 May, was expertly timed. In late...

The European Union’s agricultural trade relationship with Africa has long been unequal but its double standards have sunk to absurd depths. Brussels allows European-based companies to export more...

The Wednesday press briefings that follow the weekly ministerial meetings under President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are usually routine affairs. But on 6 May, government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly surprised...

The more urgent the succession question becomes – President Alassane Dramane Ouattara turned 84 on 1 January – the more the ruling party will start to resemble a...

Having seized key towns across the arid north in alliance with jihadists, the Front de libération de l’Azawad (FLA) claims that rather than ramming through secession it will...

As the United States repositions itself in the Horn of Africa, an emboldened Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) is stepping up its struggle with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy...

For a moment, Nigeria’s battered opposition looked as though it had agreed a unity formula that might unpick President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political pre-eminence.

President Yoweri Museveni's decision to invite opposition minister Norbert Mao to the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) parliamentary retreat at Kyankwanzi in April – and then praise his leadership...

A seven-part documentary series produced by Netflix, the United States-based film and television streaming service, The Trials of Winnie Mandela, which examines the complex legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela,...

‘We will not be able to truly live our Islam until the lay character of the state is removed. We are not free in Mali.’ At the fifth...

More European Union funding is at risk for President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government after it blocked a European Parliament delegation from entering the country to hold hearings into...

Never one to forget personal slights, President William Ruto may applaud Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei’s motion seeking to strip former President Uhuru Kenyatta of his retirement benefits. State...

Three days after Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) fighters killed defence minister Sadio Camara and destroyed his home in Kati, General Assimi Goïta finally resurfaced. After...

Abandoning any pretence that his regime is a transitional bridge to even a distant restoration of elected multi-party politics, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in a military...