By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

The political and security schisms in the Sahel have intensified as relations between the three military ruled states – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – and the regional...

Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan has escalated the propaganda war against President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MBZ) and the United Arab Emirates,...

In line with his opposition to renewable energy projects, President Donald J Trump’s decision to revoke and rescind the United States International Climate Finance Plan will mean cancelling...

Former President Joseph Kabila has re-emerged from the political wilderness, holding talks with opposition politicians about Congo-Kinshasa's political future and issuing a fierce denunciation of his successor, Félix...

The follow-on effects of the United States’ foreign aid freeze are set to include patients with HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis in Kenya. Those patients will now have to pay...

When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was greeted on the tarmac at Mogadishu airport by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 27 February, hopes were raised of a normalisation...

A peace agreement brokered by Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo should move Senegal closer to ending Africa’s longest-running separatist conflict despite one of the main rebel groups not...

President Félix Tshisekedi is offering the United States access to Congo-Kinshasa’s critical minerals as a bargaining chip to get Washington’s support to force out M23 and Rwanda from...

The European Union moved closer to sanctioning Rwanda on 24 February after the bloc’s foreign ministers agreed to suspend defence cooperation with Kigali and put the controversial agreement...