Turnout numbers, however embellished, rather than the voting results were the main interest in the presidential elections in Djibouti on 11 April and Benin on 12 April, after...

Five months after opposition to the election of Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan with 98% of the vote as President on 29 October escalated into deadly street clashes, Malawi’s...

Almost 4,500 white South Africans have been given refugee status in the United States since last October, according to the US Department of State's Bureau of Population. In...

African economies will slump on average by 0.2% if the United States-Israeli war against Iran lasts longer than six months, reckons a joint report by a group of...

Six months after seizing power helped by Gen Z protestors who drove out his predecessor Andry Rajoelina, interim president Colonel Michael Randrianirina has faced down an assassination plot...

The parliament in Yaoundé voted 200 to 18 on 4 April to create a new office of vice-president whose holder would be appointed and could be dismissed solely...

Ghana and the African Union have secured a diplomatic triumph after winning a sweeping majority in the United Nations for a resolution drafted by Accra calling for reparations...

There was much diplomatic manoeuvring after a presidential spokesman in South Africa announced on 26 March that France’s invitation to President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the G7 summit...

The ruling by a Nairobi court on 25 March that former Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju’s house could not be searched by police, was a major win...

Washington’s Voice of America radio station will be back on air in dozens of African countries following a court ruling outlawing attempts by the Trump administration to shut...