The latest round of arrests in Mali, amid reports of a planned putsch on 10 August, looks unlikely to change the centralisation of power in Bamako or in...

On most measures, President Bola Tinubu has emphatically improved the position of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria – despite the unpopularity of many of its economic...

After an ugly fight with President Julius Maada Bio’s government over working conditions and back pay, Chief Executive of Koidu Limited, Dag Cramer is closing the country’s richest...

Strategists in the ruling All Progressives Congress and sundry opposition parties are scurrying to adapt to the changing political conditions after the demise of Muhammadu Buhari at 82...

Gambia has failed again to enact a new constitution after parliament rejected a draft bill on 7 July – a move that clears the way for President Adama...

Leadership succession and regional stability were set to dominate the informal talks between Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on...

Nigériens are two weeks away from the second anniversary of the putsch that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, breaking military partnerships with France, the United States and the European...

A report by Gambia’s lawmakers has blamed three state officials for interfering with a police investigation into the importation and sale of 36,000 tonnes of sanctioned Russian diesel...

In Ghana, ‘non-aggression pacts’ – informal understandings between senior figures in the two main political parties not to pursue grand corruption cases after a change in government –...

‘The men in green are back, and prospects for democratic consolidation have dimmed significantly,’ warned Afrobarometer’s Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi in a Brookings Institution essay in June. ‘Africa’s democratic project...