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Ghana risks losing US$3.8 billion in World Bank financing and jeopardising a $3bn IMF programme if President John Dramani Mahama signs the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values...

Less than a month after being sworn in, Benin’s new President, Romuald Wadagni has met with Niger’s junta leader Abdourahmane Tiani and negotiated the reopening of their common...

Gunfire around Niamey’s airport on 18 June – the second militant assault on the facility in six months – has sharpened the urgency of a diplomatic opening between...

What is being presented in London as an efficiency drive looks like a strategic retreat in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg. Under government pressure, the BBC is trimming capacity...

When Spain’s Guardia Civil intercepted a cargo vessel, off the Western Sahara coast carrying over 30 tonnes of cocaine on 1 May – the biggest such interdiction in...

Officials in President Félix Tshisekedi’s government are increasingly frustrated by the flow of sophisticated Chinese-made weapons sold to Rwanda, then handed over to the Mouvement du 23 Mars...

In the wake of April’s attacks that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara and sent junta leader General Assimi Goïta into hiding, it was with Russia’s ambassador in Bamako,...

‘We must separate facts from fake news as we deal with the protest in South Africa,’ International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola told delegates at a Commonwealth ministerial meeting...

Israel is exploring the possibility of establishing a naval base at the port of Berbera in Somaliland after a three-day state visit by President Abdirahman Mahamed Abdullahi Irro....

The União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) has turned to an old ally as it steps up its international lobbying ahead of next year’s general...

Congolese voters have been presented with a fait accompli but their acquiescence is not guaranteed. President Felix Tshisekedi, who is midway through his second term, says the rebel...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government faces a challenge that reaches far beyond immigration. The rise of anti-immigration movements across South Africa is exposing deeper doubts about the country’s ability...

The Ghana government’s repatriation of over 950 Ghanaian citizens from South Africa has yielded a surge in support locally for President John Mahama’s government even as it signals...

Ghana’s exit from its US$3 billion International Monetary Fund lending programme in May, followed by an economic roadshow in London including meetings with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and...

Parliament’s debate on Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3 starting on 2 June has opened a wider battle over Zimbabwe’s political order, as the bill would extend elected terms...

Coordination and harmonisation is the mantra of health officials as they race to contain the Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. With no vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain beyond...