One of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s last diplomatic forays before his resignation on 7 September was his hosting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9)...

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...

Regional players are adjusting their strategies as conflicts in the Horn of Africa intensify. United States President Donald Trump’s three-country trip to the Gulf from 16 to 19...

For a cash-strapped government and a deeply unpopular president, William Ruto’s five-day trip to China could hardly have gone better. He returned with the promise of new investment...

Although most western media paid it little attention, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, held from 4 to 6 September, received near wall-to-wall coverage across swathes of Africa. FOCAC’s...

A string of investment announcements for electric vehicle production across Africa are expected at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in Beijing from 4-6 September. Previous FOCACs have...

For President Kaïs Saïed's beleaguered and cash-strapped government, foreign interest – especially outside the usual suspects in the European Union – is regarded as politically useful even if...

Up to 60 Chinese nationals, along with an undisclosed number of Libyans, were arrested in western Libya last month when police discovered major illegal Bitcoin-mining operations.

The military government of Col Assimi Goïta is in negotiations with North Korea to build a munitions factory in Dialakorobougou, 20 kilometres from Bamako, according to a military...

An interview by Beijing-aligned newspaper guancha.cn with Professor Tang Xiaoyang, a top development economist in China, has spelt out official thinking about debt restructuring as differences over strategy...