An Africa Confidential Special Report By Josef Skrdlik and Andrew Weir

One year after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic demise, the legacy of his efforts to frame Russia as a liberator of Africa from western neocolonialism lives on.

Beyond the sweeping international criticism in the UN and other fora of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, African officials fear their region will suffer most from the economic blight...

The visit of the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, to Bangui at the beginning of November was supposed to signal Paris's decisive re-engagement with its former territory....

The Gambia is edging closer to high noon as the presidential handover date of 19 January looms. Yahya Jammeh has until then to step down, and there are...