The crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin's jet on 23 August was both expected and full of surprises. It was expected because no one believed President Vladimir Putin would do...

Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March, three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de...

The regime of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra may have staved off the threat of a coup d’état – unlike neighbouring Gabon and three Sahelian states – but citizens complain...

On the scale of economic gains and losses, a quick end to the Russian war on Ukraine would be in South Africa's, and much of Africa's best interest....

It was a first for a UN Climate Conference. But it stopped short of what many delegates had called for – 'a phase-out' of the use of coal,...