African unity – alongside climate solutions and access to adaptation finance – will top the agenda at the second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa, which runs from...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has strengthened his control over his government’s economic ministries by appointing his eldest daughter, Adut Salva Kiir, as a senior economic advisor and dismissing...

A three-hour meeting in Zurich between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and United States President Donald Trump’s Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos on...

The cost of living, Gulf States investors and the government’s authoritarian turn are set to dominate the elections on 27 September. They will be the first national...

The price of propping up an unpopular president is rising for veteran opposition figure and kingmaker Raila Odinga. He still wants to chart a course that preserves his...

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the volatile head of Uganda’s military and son of President Yoweri Museveni, has launched a further purge of officers as part of efforts to consolidate...

The path towards a revamped passenger and freight rail link between Kenya and Uganda has become clearer, after the London Court of International Arbitration dismissed a US$2 billion...

National Security Advisor Hussein Ma’alim Mahamud Sheikh Ali resigned on 23 July, after many missteps over the last year that have allowed Al Shabaab to recover three-quarters of...

A landmark conference to establish a new Federal Member State of Somalia, Khatumo State, concluded on 31 July in Las Anod, the town that Somaliland’s President Muse Bihi...

President William Ruto’s falling out with his core Mount Kenya constituency – followed by the impeachment of his former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua – has become the defining crisis...