After a bid failed to bring together Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in Villers-Cotterêts and Paris,...

A diplomatic row is brewing after South Africa endorsed its own candidate to take over from African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina next year – despite the Southe...

Kaïs Saïed will get a second term as Tunisia’s president after a decisive win in the elections on 6 October. Saïed won 90.7% of the vote on a 28.8% turnout acc...

The bombing of the United Arab Emirates’s ambassador’s residence in Khartoum on Monday has prompted a war of words after Dubai pinned the blame for the ‘heinous a...

A group of African nations is working on what could become the world’s first joint ‘debt-for-nature’ swap and the latest innovative solution on debt reduction and...

The Zimbabwean government’s latest attempt to discourage citizens from using US dollars appears in danger of collapse after the central bank’s decision to devalue its g...

Days after securing a second term with a Soviet-style 94.6% vote share, President Abdelmajid Tebboune has contracted a new K-Street lobbying firm to do his government’s bidd...

Several months of severe flooding in Chad have intensified the humanitarian crisis facing the central African country, which finds itself struggling to cope with a refugee crisis a...

The decision by law enforcement authorities to arrest 152 people for allegedly encouraging migrant crossings into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at Morocco’s northern tip, sugg...

The jailing of Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli for repeatedly refusing to testify on the whereabouts of three activists who were allegedly kidnapped by the police dur...