Masisi town, the administrative capital of the Masisi territory in North Kivu, has become the latest to be taken by the Rwandan-backed M23 militia group, whose recent incursion...

Mozambique is set for a showdown this week after Venâncio Mondlane, the presidential candidate of the opposition Partido Otimista pelo Desenvolvimento de Moçambique (Podemos), announced that he will...

President William Ruto is under mounting pressure to halt a wave of abductions, mainly of youth activists since the nationwide Gen Z protests in June, which are widely...

The crisis over the presidential election results has deepened following a prison riot in Maputo on Christmas Day. At least 30 were killed in clashes between inmates and...

President João Lourenço’s pardoning of José Filomeno dos Santos, aka Zenú, the son of his predecessor President José Eduardo dos Santos, who had been imprisoned for fraud, marks...

The diplomatic chill between the Sahelian military juntas and France grew colder over Christmas after Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani accused France of allying with militant groups,...

Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud looks like the big winner from the so-called Ankara agreement struck with Ethiopia last week, which could effectively nix the memorandum of understanding...

The Uganda Law Council’s decision to withhold a special temporary certificate for National Rainbow Coalition–Kenya (NARC-Kenya) leader Martha Karua to practise law in Uganda, preventing her from defending...

The eleventh-hour cancellation of peace talks between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda by the Angolan government mediating the talks, means that the deadlock over the Kivu war will continue into...

The collapse of Bashar al Assad’s dictatorship in Syria could have major implications for Russia, whose naval base in Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea coast provided logistical support...