Abiy turns the screw on the ethno-nationalists

The Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) has pushed deep into Tigray, capturing the regional capital, Mekelle, on 4 October after a rapid turnaround on several fronts. The advance...

Retired Constitutional Court judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s inquiry inquiry into criminal influence over the police service is developing into a broader test of confidence in all the institutions responsible...

The fallout from the stolen election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) last October, and the mass killing of protestors, has neither...

The death of flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo in a helicopter crash on 30 September has jolted the pan-African networks that he built around money, access and political favour....

Centralising all power under his office ahead of elections scheduled for 22 December, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dissolved the transitional government and legislatures while retaining...

Public resentment against economic stagnation and corruption powered Peter Mutharika to an unlikely second term aged 85 last September. But his administration has made little progress on either...

Brussels’s promise of closer economic ties with Africa is colliding with its drive to protect European farmers. Proposed changes to pesticide-residue limits could force African farmers to change...

The clashes which broke out on 23 September in Tigray are the fiercest since the TPLF signed the Pretoria accord with the Federal forces in November 2022. They...

Days after Raila Odinga’s burial last October, his son Raila Junior was formally installed as the head of the Odinga household in a traditional ceremony at Opoda Farm,...

SIERRA LEONE: The European Commission is understood to have been irritated by Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel’s claim that the suspension of aid and budget support for...

President William Samoei Ruto has assembled an advisory team of technocrats and loyalist bruisers, many of whom plan to use their State House roles in electoral politics next...

A fluent public speaker with a generous travel budget, President William Samoei Ruto, has been raising his profile again at the UN General Assembly this week, lobbying for...

A consensus is emerging that President Hakainde Hichilema and his ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) panicked during the 13 August election count, fearing they would fall...

A new trial of strength between President Félix Tshisekedi and his opponents Delly Sesanga and Martin Fayulu in the C64 Coalition unfolded on the streets of Kinshasa, Lubumbashi...

Africa’s largest electrification initiative has made an early advance, with the World Bank and African Development Bank reporting more than 50 million electricity connections in 40 countries. The...