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...

São Tomé’s Audit Office (Tribunal de Contas) released a report on 19 May examining the implementation of a 25-year PPP agreement signed by Patrice Trovoada’s government in October...

The youngish government of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 45, and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, 50, is at a crossroads seven months after winning a super-majority in the parliament....

Grim casualty figures from recent insurgent attacks on army garrisons across central and northern Mali have exposed the cost of junta leader, General Assimi Goïta’s decision to reject...

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was preparing to mark two years in power on 29 May, his allies in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) declared the 73-year-old...