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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...

Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa was one of the few African star turns at April’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank,...

The arrest and detention of three opposition leaders in Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan points to concerted attempts by government to both crush their opponents and undermine the...

Edwin Sifuna, Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Senator for Nairobi County, has cut a frustrated figure during the political manoeuvring that followed last June’s...

Tidjane Thiam, a minister under former President Henri Konan Bédié, left Côte d’Ivoire for a lucrative business career after Bédié’s ouster in a 1999 military coup. During that...

The appointment of Yusuf Maitama Tuggar as President Bola Tinubu’s Foreign Minister in May 2023 was one of the more imaginative cabinet choices. A former journalist and ambassador...

At her first press conference after being appointed as Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister last July, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner said that she aimed ‘to use diplomacy for more peace in...

After seizing control of the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) party, Tundu Lissu now faces the gargantuan task of taking on President Samia Suluhu Hassan and...