Winning the three previous elections with more than 90% was not enough for President Paul Kagame. Partial results announced on 16 July gave the president a Soviet-style 99.15%...

The most damning assertion in the latest report by the UN Group of Experts (GoE) on Congo-Kinshasa, that 3,000-4,000 Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) troops had ‘de facto control’...

The rebellions and counter-insurgency operations causing havoc in Ethiopia’s two largest regions, Amhara and Oromia, have overshadowed the aftermath of the two-year civil war centred on the dissident...

The war between General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti’ and General Abdel Fattah al Burhan’s forces ebbs and flows with only one certainty – that the position of civilians...

With over 10 million people internally displaced and a further two million forced to flee to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, the war between Sudan’s rival miliary factions...

As they regroup from the political defeat of 26 June, President William Ruto and his finance minister Njuguna Ndung’u are torn between the demands of a highly organised...

After their protests forced President William Ruto to abandon the government’s Finance Bill and its planned US$2.4 billion tax rises, the Generation Z activists face their own political...

The isolated Horn of Africa branch of ISIS or Da’ish, outnumbered and outgunned hitherto by Al Shabaab, the trustiest affiliate of the rival Al Qaida franchise, has been...

Regional concerns are mounting over the mooted quid pro quo between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi in which Ethiopia gets a port in the...

In response to the biggest national protest for decades – activists marched in 35 out of Kenya’s 47 counties – President William Ruto announced on 26 June he...