East Africa

Faced with a combination of fuel and fertiliser price rises resulting from the Iran war, high debt servicing costs and declining aid flows hitting consumer spending and government...

East Africa’s budget season has again been framed as a fightback against the global slowdown. Finance ministers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi point to strong regional...

Coordination and harmonisation is the mantra of health officials as they race to contain the Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. With no vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain beyond...

The outbreak of controlled hostilities between the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in December is deepening fissures across East Africa and the Horn. There are...

In 2026 Djibouti finds itself at the centre of the growing regional divide between Somalia, Eritrea and Egypt on the one hand and the opposing alliance of Ethiopia,...

President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s New Year jitters after the capture by M23 and Rwandan troops of Uvira, a city 5 kilometres from the Burundian border, will hardly have been...

The dark clouds of a new Ethiopia-Eritrea war are set to linger over Addis Ababa in 2026. Yet despite an ongoing risk of escalation, hostilities will likely remain...

An early test will be internal elections in William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – initially supposed to take place in mid-2024 but which will now happen on...

Rwanda has kept its extensive operations in Congo-Kinshasa off-budget by reviving its military’s involvement in the eastern Congolese mineral trade. Evidence of increased military spending could have derailed...

Any joy at Mogadishu’s successful completion of local elections on 26 December was quickly extinguished by the shock news of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state,...

Keeping the economy afloat in the face of international moves to suspend funding and investments is the biggest challenge facing President Samia Suluhu Hassan as she attempts to...

Sudan’s conflict is changing. What started as a military confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023 has evolved into something else...

The government of Yoweri Museveni is leaving nothing to chance, and the president’s son (and presumed heir), Defence Forces chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been put at the...