After 153 days, 63,000 testimonies and two deadline extensions, Tanzania's Commission of Inquiry into post-election violence presented its findings to President Samia Suluhu Hassan on 23 April –...

EU foreign ministers have agreed to commit an additional €75 million (US$87m) to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission (AUSSOM) in Somalia, in a move that should...

United States officials have been talking with Eritrea to explore normalising relations. Initiated by Egypt and Massad Boulos, Senior Africa Advisor to US President Donald J Trump, the...

The borrowers’ platform – backed by the UN Conference on Tade and Development (UNCTAD) as secretariat and drawing in developing country finance ministers and central bank governors –...

The United States-Israeli-Iran war has handed Morocco’s Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) a commercial and strategic opportunity. It has raised US$1.5 billion through its first international hybrid bond,...

Pope Leo XIV has emerged as an unlikely political figure on his first trip to Africa as pontiff. After stirring the anger of United States President Donald Trump...

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...

Landing in the United States after two months on the run, Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine wants the Trump administration and the European Union to...

Ghana will become the first African state to conclude a defence and co-operation pact with the European Union on 23 March when the bloc’s High Representative for Foreign...

On 17 March the Brussels Court of First Instance is to decide whether former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon will face trial before the Brussels Criminal Court charged with...

The Ghanaian government plans to table a United Nations resolution demanding reparations for the slave trade and recognising transatlantic slavery as the ‘gravest crime in the history of...

On the face of it, the US State Department’s designation on 9 March of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organisation is a setback for General...

‘Wait and see’ is the verdict of many African ministers as they weigh the impact of the Middle East war on oil prices. That is the stance that...

Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has threatened to take his Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail, l'éthique et la fraternité (Pastef) party out of government as the power...

Talks on a new loan programme with the International Monetary Fund are set to start in late April, but the heavy lifting on a new agreement will only...

The US State Department agreed a dozen bilateral deals with African states in December, featuring US funding commitments of over US$5 billion as part of its ‘America First...

The European Parliament has heavily criticised the opacity in the EU’s Global Gateway infrastructure investment programme, particularly the lack of clarity over where the cash for projects is...

Ghana’s licensed cocoa buyers are in hock to the country’s banks by up to US$750 million, according to the Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana, as low prices...

President Daniel Chapo’s hopes of securing a new International Monetary Fund loan on softer terms have been squashed after the Fund stated that major fiscal reforms and a...

The conclusions of the UN report that atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces militia in and around El Fasher bear the ‘hallmarks of genocide’ will increase pressure...

President Évariste Ndayishimiye is increasingly jittery about the proximity of Rwandan troops to the Burundian border as well as the humanitarian costs caused by M23’s expansion in South...

The state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has had its wings clipped by President Bola Tinubu’s plans to cut to 20% the share of profits that the...

Trade ministers are set to reopen the World Trade Organization’s fundamental principles on most favoured nation status at a March summit in Cameroon after WTO director general Ngozi...

There is optimism in Kinshasa that it can follow other African countries in benefiting from eurobond interest rates that are close to their lowest since the 2007-8 financial...

President João Lourenço’s decision to re-hire Washington-based lobbyists Squire Patton Boggs is the most lucrative of several new lobbying deals linking African governments with the K-street lobbyist networks.

Outgoing Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen hopes that by agreeing to stand down in April he will keep his cabinet seat as Agriculture Minister in the Government of...

The embattled Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission faces another credibility challenge after its long-time chief executive Hussein Marjan was forced to resign after opposition leaders said they had...

At least 16 military officers are to face trial accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as security concerns are becoming a critical issue in next...

The European Commission has given its formal backing for Morocco’s controlled autonomy plan for Western Sahara, in a major shift of the bloc’s diplomatic stance. At a meeting...

Saudi Arabia is set to cash in on the fury of the Sudan Armed Forces regime in Khartoum at the United Arab Emirates, which is seen by...

At the centre of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s campaign against opposition activists ahead of the 15 January general election, Museveni’s son, Defence Forces chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has unveiled a new senior diplomatic team, including a new ambassador to the United States, in a hint at which countries are its diplomatic...

Delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the site of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, have been tasked with drawing up a new blueprint for development policy as...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has signed a deal worth US$540,000 per year with the Washington-based Ervin Graves Strategy Group as it seeks to boost its relations with...

The governments in Dakar and Maputo are playing ‘wait and see’ with the IMF as they work out the parameters of new borrowing and economic reform programmes with...

Somalia’s suspension of its bilateral agreements with the United Arab Emirates has prompted Dubai withdrawing workers and equipment from its ports in Somaliland, Somalia and Puntland. It will...

Against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia was the key target for the regional tour by China’s Foreign Minister...

The government’s crackdown on dissent is continuing after the state’s accreditation agency for journalists said that it would rigorously enforce the Media Services Act to ensure that only...

Egypt expects to receive the remaining €4 billion of a €5bn macro financial assistance package agreed with the EU in 2024 in three tranches before the end of...

President Bola Tinubu has rejected opposition calls to delay the implementation of a new tax regime, as the government pins its hopes on streamlining administration and collection to...

President Donald J Trump’s administration is reshaping development policy again with 13 bilateral pacts with African states so far as part of the ‘American First Global Health...

At the height of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s ‘War on Terror’ in 2004, British officials mulled whether a military operation could depose the ‘depressingly fit’ Zimbabwean President Robert...

President Hakainde Hichilema has got his constitutional amendment bill over the line, a move that will increase the size of the National Assembly and scrap term limits for...

Lawmakers have given the green light to Ivanhoe Atlantic’s 25-year concession to transport iron ore from the Kon Kweni deposit in neighbouring Guinea via a 243-kilometre railroad to...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi have put the hard sell on Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan...