The starting gun fired on 20 September for campaigning in the local elections with the Constitutional Court ruling that parties could reopen their candidate nominations ahead of voting...

In her annual State of the EU speech on 16 September, the offer of investment in green energy and new promises on vaccine supply were the only mentions...

Technocrats and those exiled by her predecessor are the main beneficiaries from President Samia Suluhu Hassan's mini cabinet reshuffle. She named four new ministers, dropped three, and appointed...

Rwanda's closure of the Katuna border with Uganda – the busiest crossing – curtailed trade between the two countries in early 2019. The crossings stayed closed despite numerous...

The decision by the European Commission's competition authority to clear Kenyan telecoms company Safaricom and its European parent Vodafone of competition concerns gives the green light for the...

The crushing defeat of the Islamist Parti de la justice et du développement in the parliamentary elections on 8 September shakes up the political scene with a coalition...

Within hours of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his men seizing power in Conakry in the morning of 5 September and arresting President Alpha Condé, regional leaders were calling...

So many regional diplomats and officials have been criticising the African Union for its failure to highlight horrific abuses in the 10-month war between the federal government in...

On 6 September, Britain's former Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the Group of 7 economies would have a billion surplus doses of vaccine by the...

In a blitz of new appointments just days after he was sworn in, President Hakainde Hichilema has appointed veteran economist Situmbeko Musokotwane as Finance Minister, a role he...