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Who would be in the new government? The buzz began after Côte d’Ivoire’s 27 December legislative elections, won by the ruling Rassemblement des houphoëtistes pour la démocatie et...

The death of Raila Odinga last October left a void in Kenyan politics and at the heart of his Orange Democratic Movement. ODM was Raila’s fiefdom. It was...

Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s stock had risen after he and Kenya’s President William Ruto were invited to the signing of the peace deal in Washington. Less than two...

A former African National Congress (ANC) Mayor of Johannesburg, Parks Tau’s career was in jeopardy after losing the mayoralty to the Democratic Alliance’s Herman Mashaba in 2016 after...

The 3 September resignation of National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) Governor Mamo Mihretu – one of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s closest economic confidants – surprised bankers in Addis...

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...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s presidency will be shaped by how her government manages the fossil fuel bonanza. Her election last December coincided with the take-off of the country’s oil boom...

‘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...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s tenure, once praised for its democratic reforms, has taken a sharp authoritarian turn. After initially reversing some of the repressive policies of her predecessor,...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been weakened after the three-month budget dispute that brought President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity to the brink of collapse. Ramaphosa is...