Within three days of the parliamentary advisory panel's report on the Phala Phala affair landing on 30 November and concluding there may be grounds for his impeachment, President...

In elections on 17 December, President Kaïs Saïed is expected to get the docile parliament he wants. It will be shaped by his constitutional reform programme, approved on...

President William Ruto has suspended the four members of the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) who disowned the results which saw him elected in August in a...

Africa's relations with the United States may not have been as badly strained by the Ukraine war as its ties with the European Union but Washington wants to...

Less than a fortnight after their Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China to drum up trade and investment, Presidents William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni of Kenya and...

The United Nations has agreed to lay the groundwork for the creation of a new system of international tax cooperation by approving a resolution on 23 November to...

After his cabinet secretary nominations sailed through parliament despite integrity and competence questions over many of them, President William Ruto faces a roadblock to his plans to reward...

Sending some important diplomatic signals, Algeria's joint anti-terrorist drills with Russian troops – known as Desert Shield 2022 – in the Bechar region near the border with Morocco...

Pledging more support for the 'Nairobi Peace Process', President William Ruto met with his counterpart Félix Tshisekedi on 21 November to underline Nairobi's economic and security interests in...

The chaos at the Treasury worsened after minister of state for finance Charles Adu Boahen was sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 14 November for telling...

President William Ruto's government has secured an endorsement from the IMF on 8 November giving it access to some US$433 million, out of its three-year $2.34 billion extended...

The arrival of thousands of political leaders, diplomats, journalists and a few, carefully screened, activists, in Sharm el Sheikh for the UN COP27 Climate Summit on 6-18 November...

On the eve of the UN's COP 27 Climate summit, European parliament MPs dropped their opposition to Uganda's and Tanzania's oil pipeline project at the Joint Parliamentary Assembly...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's hopes of resolving what he called the 'divergences and disagreements' at the Arab summit in Algiers on1-2 November were disappointed but he secured a...

Trying to reverse a long-term fall in oil and gas production capacity and investment, the government has opened a bidding rounds for seven offshore fields close to Lagos...

The revelations that £4 billion (US$4.6bn) of Britain's £11bn development budget this year is likely to be spent within the country to house Ukrainian refugees, underscore the pressure...

The combination of increased risk of debt distress, budget deficits and limited economic diversification have prompted the African Development Bank (AfDB) to become the latest international financial institution...

The multi-billion dollar campaign platforms launched in the week-ending 22 October of the presidential candidates from the two biggest parties, Bola Tinubu for the ruling All Progressives' Congress...

Fast moving events on the battlefield where several Tigrayan towns have fallen to Federal forces in recent weeks threaten progress at the peace talks between the federal Ethiopian...

'Freedom is coming', was the mantra of President William Ruto's successful election campaign. It was particularly fitting for many of his Cabinet Secretary nominees facing criminal and graft...

Tunisia's opposition leaders have been encouraged by a ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, the African Union's top court, which stated that President Kaïs...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has organised an unlikely lobbying agreement covering sanctions relief and presidential meetings, ahead of his visit to the United States in December for President...

A new report argues that as much as 40% of the World Bank's claimed US$17.2 billion lending on climate finance in 2020 could not be independently verified as...

A year after being fast-tracked into government as defence minister, Stergomena Tax has been promoted again, this time as Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, replacing...

The first week of speeches at the UN General Assembly augured badly for progress at the UN's COP27 Climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh with leaders from the...

Having won a referendum, albeit on a low turnout of 30%, for his constitutional reform proposals, President Kaïs Saïed is now planning to consolidate his grip on power...

The best guess by development economists at the UN General Assembly is that only two of the UN's 17 sustainable development goals will be achieved – both are...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry walked out of an Arab League ministerial meeting earlier this month upon learning that it would be chaired by Libyan foreign minister Najla...

As the second biggest recipient of United States' military aid after Israel, Egypt remains a strategic priority for Washington despite growing calls from human rights campaigners for a...

After his inauguration on 13 September, President William Ruto starts his first term with clear control of both houses of parliament and a good chance of expanding that...

A deepening political crisis has been averted for now after President Evariste Ndayishimiye sacked his prime minister Alain Bunyoni and his cabinet chief General Gabriel Nizigama last week...

Uganda's move to pay the first US$65 million installment towards its $325m reparations bill to Congo-Kinshasa, despite describing the Netherlands-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision to award...

With Western countries accused of unfairness for compelling Africa to curtail fossil fuel use when they are only responsible for a tiny proportion of greenhouse gases, Nigerian Vice-President...

The deep freeze between Rwanda and Uganda may be coming to an end after officials confirmed earlier this week that they had resumed diplomatic talks.

After nearly 50 years of almost total dominance, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) suffered a nasty electoral shock in the 24 August general election (AC...

On 29 August, the Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE – electoral commission) announced that President João Lourenço had won with 51.5% in what it describes as 'fair and transparent'...

Japan's pledge to direct US$30 billion to Africa in aid, loans and investments over the next three years is part of its plan to boost flows to the...

Competition for fertiliser and the minerals needed to make it are intensifying after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The war is set to drive a 7% drop in global...

Officials at the European Union see their financial and political support for Ukraine is straining their ties with Africa on economic cooperation and diplomatic stances – but they...

Few African politicians have been keener to work with United States political consultancies than President George Weah in his four years in office.

The African Union’s plan to ramp up oil and gas production launched at a preparatory meeting with national negotiating teams has triggered a row with climate experts and...

At the heart of Nigeria's deepening foreign exchange woes is a paradox – that revenues from Africa's biggest oil and gas producer have been falling as energy prices...

Many in Nairobi's commentariat forecast the presidential election on 9 August will be the closest ever – which is almost certain to trigger appeals and street demonstrations by...

On parallel tracks across Africa, this week France and Russia are trying to win the information war over which state or alliance of states is responsible for the...

It started about as badly as it could for President Cyril Ramaphosa with the news that the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, was investigating whether he had breached the...

After over three decades of trade liberalisation, African economies are among the most open in the world but their export bases remain among the most specialised. This lack...

So far Kaïs Saïed's year of entrenching power in the presidency and the whittling away of the rights of parliament and other centres of oversight and scrutiny has...

Allegations of improper relations between the firm printing the ballot papers for the general elections and Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetangula, a prominent ally of Deputy President William Ruto,...

Just weeks after his election, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is confronted with a national and regional food supply crisis as his opponents in Al Shabaab try to capitalise...

A US$600 billion package of infrastructure funding from the European Union and the United States emerged as the headline deal for Africa and other developing regions at the...

Baroness Patricia Scotland won re-election as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth in a tight contest and bad-tempered finale to its summit in Kigali between 20 and 26...

Every Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) prompts its own soul-searching, together with confident predictions that its 54 members will agree that this colonial-based organisation has outlived its...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky got his audience with African leaders on 20 June, some four months after Moscow's invasion of his country.

The latest wave of power cuts – or 'load-shedding' as the government prefers to call them – could be a foretaste of a wider electricity crisis over the...

The European Court of Justice's rejection of an appeal against sanctions by Kremlin favourite Yevgeny Prigozhin, who controls private military contractor the Wagner Group, will complicate the group's...

As Madrid rebuilds its diplomatic relations with Morocco in the wake of its latest row over Western Sahara, it is eroding its long-nurtured ties with Algiers. This has...

Over 2,300 delegates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are meeting in the Eagle Square convention centre on 6-8 June in Abuja to choose their presidential candidate...

Foreign banks hoping to start up in Ethiopia following its banking liberalisation will have to navigate another set of rules: they will only be awarded operating licences if...

When the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja announced it would be extending the deadline by six days to 9 June for parties to submit their chosen candidates...

When Kenya's central bank raised interest rates on 30 May for the first time in seven years, it was the latest African economy to follow the lead of...

The World Health Organization is to push ahead with reforms to its International Health Regulations, which govern countries' obligations on public health emergencies, after opposition from Africa and...

Talk of a national coalition government in South Africa after the 2024 elections – some say even before – is gathering steam with a meeting on tactics in...

Environmental activists are stepping up efforts to dissuade banks and insurance companies from supporting the $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, due to run 1,443...

Ahead of hosting the G7 in Bavaria next month, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking wider support for western opposition to Russia's war on Ukraine on a trip...

Launching Britain's international development strategy paper this week, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the policies aimed to challenge 'malign actors' and bring more countries into the orbit of...

Journalists and media houses were repeatedly targeted in clampdowns under President John Magufuli as the government's security organisations tried to limit dissent and undermine the opposition. This left...

After criticising Kenyan politics as a 'rich boys' club', former Justice Minister Martha Karua has been chosen by Raila Odinga as his running mate ahead of national elections...

As Africa's cocoa producers face growing financial pressures, they have won backing from European Union MPs to open talks on a price pact as part of wider discussions...

The Zimbabwe dollar lost 40% of its value against its US counterpart over the weekend according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), the central bank. The combination...

Alexander Cummings, the leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC), is bringing in Cherie Blair, the senior QC and wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair,...

African states are facing 'a Catch-22 situation' as the war in Europe is driving up the cost of food and the cost of growing it locally, according to...

Plans by European Union states to buy billions of cubic metres of gas from Africa have been spelt out in a leaked document detailing the strategy due to...

President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to force out his deputy William Ruto could trigger further political instability ahead of national elections in August.

Ahead of the African National Congress's policy conference slated for the middle of this year, its leaders are backing a radically pro-business plan to redraw the role of...

South Africa's coal exports to the European Union have increased tenfold so far this month compared to last year as European utilities ramp up purchases amid efforts to...

As the finance ministers and bank chiefs meet top officials from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank over the food and fuel crisis sweeping developing economies,...

After tilting strongly in favour of Rabat's offer of 'limited autonomy' to the Western Sahara as an alternative to a UN-organised referendum, the United States and the European...

As their spring meetings get under way in Washington DC, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are putting together financing facilities worth over US$500 billion to...

Pressure is building on President Cyril Ramaphosa to reject a compromise proposal offered by the United States and the European Union for a temporary waiver of intellectual property...

The trip to Algiers by Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi on 11 April is the latest of bids by European Union states to step up supplies of oil...

When General Muhoozi Kainerugaba ordered the deportation of Robert Mukombozi of the opposition Rwandan National Congress (RNC) this month he was confirming his authority as special security advisor...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has set up a committee to work on banking liberalisation which is due to release a draft code for financial sector reform by...

Africa, specifically Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh conference centre, is hosting the next UN Climate summit COP27 in November but the set piece arguments over finance and burden-sharing have...

The political stand-off in Tunisia intensified on 1 April after the anti-terrorism police summoned Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi who was accused by President Kaïs Saïed of conspiring against...

Just two months after he launched the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa has led the new party to victory in 19 out of 28 by-elections held...

China is to step up and diversify its regional role in the Horn and East Africa by organising a peace conference this year to be jointly hosted by...

Late on 24 March, Senate President Ahmed Lawan told journalists that he is confident the national convention of the ruling All Progressives' Congress would follow President Muhamadu Buhari's...

Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares' statement late on 18 March that Spain views Rabat's plan for 'limited autonomy' to the Western Sahara as 'the most serious, realistic, and...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to suspend Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane after parliamentary speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula called for her impeachment. Several high court judgements had criticised Mkhwebane's findings...

Tundu Lissu, Vice-President of the opposition Chadema party, is to return to Tanzania from exile in Belgium a week after Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe was released from prison...

The lead team of negotiators has agreed a compromise on patents waiver over three to five years for Covid-19 vaccines which will require ratification by all WTO members....

The furore over the peremptory replacement of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni as interim chair of the ruling All Progressives' Congress by Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello...

Rabat has stepped up its lobbying efforts in the United States in recent months to persuade President Joe Biden's administration that it should not unpick the Trump administration's...

Two weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the economic fall-out is sweeping across Africa. President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government in Egypt appears the most vulnerable in the...

In a point-blank challenge to Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's government in Tripoli, the parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk, the House of Representatives (HoR), endorsed a...

With the release of Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe on 4 March the authorities have moved a step closer to restoring some democratic freedoms that were supressed under...

A clearer picture of international support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine should emerge when the UN General Assembly holds an emergency vote on the issue,...

Out of 52 emerging markets and developing economies, Kenya ranks third after Mongolia and China in financial inclusion, amplified by the fact that the country pioneered mobile money...

Trade unionists and bankers are urging Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to use his budget on 23 February to spell out the trade-offs he plans to make on social...

After two years in the making, the European Union's summit with the African Union summit in Brussels on 17-18 February veered towards an anti-climax.

After a week of worsening shortages caused by the discovery and withdrawal of adulterated fuel from the market, the state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC),...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan is shoring up her position in an early bid to win the ruling party's nomination in the 2025 elections. Last month she ensured the...

Launched in 2007 to fight the Islamist insurgents of Al Shabaab, the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is being torn apart as its host pushes back against...

Vaccination campaigns, a pan-African strategy on climate change and the organisation's responses to coups and conflict will dominate the agenda at the African Union (AU) summit due on...

At an online meeting on 27 January with members of parliament, which has been suspended since last July, Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi struck a defiant posture against President...

The European Union wants to agree a 'strategic partnership' with Africa at a summit next month. Now, it has identified Kenya as a key target.

Rather than sack his ministers facing criminal charges, President Lazarus Chakwera dismissed his entire cabinet on 24 January and promised to name a new one within 48 hours....

Aides to the Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi had promised an 'earthquake' ahead of the rally to launch his presidential campaign at Nairobi's Bomas of Kenya...

Officials in Nairobi and Johannesburg are working with new investors for the launch next year of the biggest airline alliance in Africa after two years of crashing revenues...

Ahead of a referendum on a new constitution in July, new voting laws and parliamentary elections in December, President Kaïs Saïed has launched an online two-month consultation process,...

Many in the political establishment wanted to ensure that Kenya's first Attorney-General, Charles Mugane Njonjo, who died on 2 January had a 'respectful send-off'. But his passing has...

The European Union's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, announced sanctions on Mali's military leaders in line with measures already taken by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas),...

Colonel Assimi Goïta's military regime is fighting on multiple fronts. It's been battling Islamist insurgents in the centre and north of the country but it is now in...

Pro-democracy activists led by the national network of Resistance Committees and the Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA) have rejected UN Envoy Volker Perthes's efforts to facilitate a political dialogue...

In the rollercoaster race for the presidency in August's elections, veteran oppositionist turned establishment candidate Raila Odinga has made a good start in the new year by bringing...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's attempts to restore some democratic rights without alienating supporters of her predecessor John Magufuli are bearing some fruit. But her reform credentials may depend...

The crisis in international vaccination efforts shows no signs of abating as tens of millions of vaccines are due to expire in the coming weeks and G20 countries...

On paper, Kenya's economy is roaring. The World Bank says the economy has bounced back strongly from the Covid-19 shock. Output for the first half of this year...

After almost two years of delays, the European Union-African Union summit is scheduled for 17-18 February. It was originally meant to be a grand signing ceremony for the...

Tigrayan leader Debretsion Gebremichael's offer of a 'strategic withdrawal' from the Afar and Amhara regions could lay the ground for a ceasefire in Ethiopia's 13-month civil war. With...