The soldiers beyond Ramaphosa’s reach

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...

After raising US$2.5 billion in a private placement that was nearly four times oversubscribed ahead of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) due in October, Aliko Dangote’s refinery is...

Without waiting for the rival leaders in Tripoli and Benghazi to settle their political feuds, Chinese companies are building up a corporate bulwark in Libya. In the west,...

Even before Beijing’s latest commercial deals for the rival camps in Libya, United States senior envoy Massad Boulos was struggling to win credibility for his scheme to reunify...

Fighters from Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) say they killed veteran Al Shabaab commander Abdullahi Ganey and three other militants in Middle Shabelle on 13 August...

With a stream of national associations withdrawing their support for him, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino is increasingly reliant on support from the...

Preparing farmers for the compliance burden posed by the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) has been complicated by the slump in wholesale cocoa prices. The price of a...

Zambia’s democratic credentials have taken an hammering ahead of the planned presidential inauguration on 1 September at ‘a location to be announced.’ The results declaring incumbent Hakainde Hichilema...

Over a period of four days, the South African government was hit with two scandals involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘hallucinations’. The first, on 27 April, was auto-parodic: Communications...

The dominant factor determining the development of Artificial Intelligence in Africa is not computing power but who controls the inputs: power, minerals and governance. The compute gap between...

Artificial Intelligence has rapidly become part of the global geopolitical contestation over resources, ideologies and supply chains, and Africa is a testing ground in all three. Middle powers,...