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...

The big announcement of Joe Biden’s first and last United States presidential visit to Africa instead underscored Washington’s severely diminished influence on the continent.

The difficulties facing the Kenya-led police peacekeeping effort tackling gang warfare in Haiti continue to mount amid reports that around 20 of the 400 Kenyan police officers have...

At the East African Community heads of state summit on 30 November, Kenyan President William Ruto told journalists that he and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni had been asked...

Chad’s decision to end its military cooperation deal with France is another major blow to France which had been actively courting President Mahamat Idriss Déby aka ‘Kaka’ to...

Namibia is set to elect its first female head of state but also looks likely to join Mozambique in having the legitimacy of its general elections dismissed as...

After weeks of denial by the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) that there were serious problems with its claimed victory in the 9 October election,...

After repeated delays, United States President Joe Biden’s valedictory visit to Angola has been rescheduled for 2 December. He is to be welcomed at Lobito port by Angolan...

After an underwhelming 10 days in Azerbaijan, with criticism of the host country’s organisation of the talks and of the political commitment from most of the summit’s major...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s decision to make the most of his honeymoon with the voters and call early parliamentary elections on 17 November has paid off.

Entering the final days of the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, little significant progress is expected on climate finance with West and Eastern powers stuck in a holding...

The ruling Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) is pushing ahead with plans to overhaul the national constitution as oppositionists it’s a ruse to extend...

Mauritius is set to become the latest African state to throw out its government after Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth conceded that his governing L'Alliance Lepep was heading towards...

Somalia’s Defence Minister Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur has insisted that Ethiopia will not participate in a new African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission which is set to begin in January...

Protests are at a crucial moment. If mass demonstrations and economic gridlock continue, opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane and his supporters will maintain hope that the governing Frente de...

Plans by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency by two years to 2030, have exposed the internal divisions within the ruling...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s remarks to the Ethiopian parliament last week that his government was seeking access to the Red Sea ‘through peaceful means’ could mark a critical...

The International Monetary Fund has given the green light for a combined disbursement of around US$606 million from its two loan facilities for Kenya but has spelt out...

Less than 15 months after military officers ousted President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba, Gabon is set to vote on a new constitution, but the military will not significantly...

Ankara plans to use a Turkey-Africa ministerial meeting later this week to step up its growing influence on the continent.

Namibia’s main opposition has lodged a petition protesting against the Electoral Commission’s decision to award a contract to Ren-Form to design, print and deliver ballot papers to be...

The crackdown on Tanzania’s opposition continues ahead of November’s local elections. On Monday, the opposition Chadema party reported that Aisha Machano, its women’s wing publicity secretary, had been...

Egypt may need to renegotiate its US$8 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund as it faces the costs of regional instability, President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...

Integration on financial services, along with a common rescue fund and a grain exchange platform are top of Russia’s wish list at this week’s BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...

Despite President William Ruto’s promise that 600 additional police officers would be deployed to the peacekeeping effort tackling gang warfare in Haiti, the mission is set to run...

Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have increased the pressure to move to a new regional common currency among the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) a year earlier...

Confusion and farce surround the health and whereabouts of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, who state officials now say is on a private visit to Geneva but has not...

After a bid failed to bring together Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in Villers-Cotterêts and Paris, President Emmanuel Macron...

A diplomatic row is brewing after South Africa endorsed its own candidate to take over from African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina next year – despite the Southern...

Kaïs Saïed will get a second term as Tunisia’s president after a decisive win in the elections on 6 October. Saïed won 90.7% of the vote on a...

The bombing of the United Arab Emirates’s ambassador’s residence in Khartoum on Monday has prompted a war of words after Dubai pinned the blame for the ‘heinous attack’...

A group of African nations is working on what could become the world’s first joint ‘debt-for-nature’ swap and the latest innovative solution on debt reduction and climate financing....

The Zimbabwean government’s latest attempt to discourage citizens from using US dollars appears in danger of collapse after the central bank’s decision to devalue its gold-backed currency, the...

Days after securing a second term with a Soviet-style 94.6% vote share, President Abdelmajid Tebboune has contracted a new K-Street lobbying firm to do his government’s bidding...

Several months of severe flooding in Chad have intensified the humanitarian crisis facing the central African country, which finds itself struggling to cope with a refugee crisis and...

The decision by law enforcement authorities to arrest 152 people for allegedly encouraging migrant crossings into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at Morocco’s northern tip, suggests that the...

The jailing of Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli for repeatedly refusing to testify on the whereabouts of three activists who were allegedly kidnapped by the police during...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is hoping to cash in on his government’s popularity and claim a parliamentary majority after announcing snap elections for 17 November in a bid...

The return of former President Ian Khama after three years of self-imposed exile, to face charges, including money laundering and owning illegal firearms, appears to be as much...

The leader of the opposition Chadema party, Freeman Mbowe, has urged President Samia Suluhu Hassan to set up a judicial commission to investigate the assassination of his close...

Faced with the option of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and two weak candidates designed to fluff up the president’s majority, most Algerians stayed at home rather than vote in...

The United States is to offer more economic and military assistance for Gabon in the coming weeks, as Washington tries to rebuild its military relations in the region,...

The offer by Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf that would give Ethiopia access to the port of Tadjoura, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the border with...

A day after holding talks with Rwanda’s military leaders about the country’s security priorities, President Paul Kagame announced a second major purge of military officials in as many...

A collapse in daily oil output has been one of the results of the chaos engulfing Libya’s central bank. After the rival Benghazi-based government of Osama Hammad, backed...

The slow pace of delivering Mpox vaccines and limited funding for scientific research into the severity of strains suggests that Africa is little more prepared for Mpox than...

The defection of Floyd Shivambu to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party has dealt a hammer blow to Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), particularly now that Shivambu has...

Legislators are pressing ahead with new laws aimed at giving the police powers to break up demonstrations just weeks after the Generation Z protest movement swept across Kenya.

President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye faces an early test of his credentials in a damaging row over press freedom.

African diplomats have moved closer to setting up a new United Nations tax authority focused on illicit financial flows and tax evasion. But the triumph is far more...

Next year’s presidential elections are set to be a rerun of 2020, after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on 18 August endorsed former President Peter Mutharika as...

The arrest and detention of hundreds of opposition leaders and supporters on 11 August, ahead of a planned rally to mark International Youth Day on 12 August, suggests...

The Cold War politics in the Sahel has been given fresh heat after Mali announced it was severing ties with Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of involvement in a deadly...

Egypt will bid to host the 2036 and 2040 Summer Olympics, says Mustapha Berraf, the Algerian head of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), following...

The planned 10 days of protests in Nigerian cities starting on 1 August slowed down on Monday after at least 21 people were killed, mostly by police bullets...

The decision by ratings agency Fitch to downgrade Kenya’s foreign currency sovereign rating, is the latest reminder that President William Ruto’s government will face international pressure to balance...

The African National Congress’s (ANC) move to pin the blame for its worst results in three decades on ex-President Jacob Zuma risks whitewashing the failures of President Cyril...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has reached an agreement with the IMF on a four-year US$3.4 billion loan – part of a $10.7bn financing programme from the Fund...

There was no mistaking the icy chill when Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accused his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto of being a Rwandan stooge who had ‘mismanaged’ the peace...

Civil society groups are mobilising citizens to defy a ban on political protests and take part in a three-day protest starting on 30 July to demand the release...

An Africa credit rating agency will start work in 2025, a senior African Union official has told reporters.

President William Ruto’s decision last week to bring back six of the senior ministers he had fired, particularly Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who many hold as culpable...

The decision by the Ugandan state to seal off the headquarters of Bobi Wine’s National Unity Party (NUP) on 22 July, ahead of a major planned anti-corruption demonstration,...

South Africa and other African states need to move away quickly from their high carbon emitting economic models, President Cyril Ramaphosa told a climate change conference in Pretoria...

President Kaïs Saïed has not announced his intention to stand but the field of candidates ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 6 October is quickly thinning out.

Morocco plans to acquire a spy satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in a US$1 billion deal, in the latest move as part of its defence deal with...

The fragility of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) was evident at a leaders’ summit in Niamey where the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) –...

The government will cut its budget by 177 billion shillings (US$1.4bn) over the next 12 months and borrow the rest of the KSh346bn ($2.7bn) in tax revenue that...

The latest international attempts – this time by Egypt – to broker peace talks between the two sides in the civil war are already struggling. Cairo, which backs...

The statement by Congo-Kinshasa’s state-owned miner Gécamines that it will oppose the sale of Trafigura Group-backed miner Chemaf Resources Ltd. to China’s Norin Mining Ltd. puts it on...

Turkey mediated the first round of talks between Somalia and Ethiopia’s foreign ministers on Monday in the first international attempt to ease diplomatic tensions between the two Horn...

Tanzania’s National Food Reserve Agency has agreed to sell 650,000 tonnes of corn to Zambia over the next eight months as Lusaka counts the costs of the drought...

At least five people have been shot, including a journalist, amid mass protests around parliament in Nairobi in what is turning into a rapidly escalating crisis for President...

This week’s trip to Botswana by Chair of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr, is the latest in a series of recent US government...

Niger’s military junta’s decision to revoke the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at the Imouraren mine in northern Niger, which sits on an estimated 200,000...

Abiy Ahmed’s government appears to be attempting to breathe new life into liberalising Ethiopia’s economy. The Council of Ministers in Addis Ababa has approved a bill that would...

Last week’s visit of Christopher Wray, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to Kenya and Nigeria to discuss the US government’s counter-terrorism strategies is...

Officials in Kinshasa have tasked United States businessman Aaron Poynton with organising a roundtable for US and Congolese business and political leaders in the coming weeks, as diplomatic...

South Korea became the latest Asian state to make a pitch for African influence at a summit attended by 25 other heads of state and government from Africa...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s remarks on Friday, captured on camera, that accused the United States of financing Zambia’s security sector in order to isolate Zimbabwe, look like the latest...

Senegal’s move to raise US$750 million of debt maturing in 2031 in two tranches at a coupon rate of 7.75%, signals the passing of an early test of...

The decision by the Sudanese army to allow a Russian naval base to be built in exchange for arms could mark a pivotal step in the civil war.

The arrest of former First Lady Esther Lungu and her daughter Chiyeso Katete over possession of properties allegedly linked to corruption is the latest front in the battle...

The economic effects of the EU's new carbon import levy are set to be far smaller than feared by many third countries, many of them African, according to...

The British government's migration deal with Rwanda is now highly likely to collapse without a single asylum-seeker being deported, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that no flights...

The parliamentary inquiry into human rights abuses committed by British soldiers is set to intensify this week. The National Assembly will hold a series of four public hearings...

A petition filed by Martin Amidu, Ghana's first Special Prosecutor, demanding the dismissal of his successor, Kissi Agyebeng, could pose a major threat to what remains of the...

President Kaïs Saïed’s government is negotiating a series of repatriation agreements with African countries in an attempt to increase voluntary returns of irregular migrants, Foreign Minister Mounir Ben...

President Félix Tshisekedi’s officials say that the Congolese army foiled an attempted coup in the early hours of Sunday morning, after armed men attacked the house of Vital...

The influence of the United States and its military base in Djibouti is likely to be a hot topic for President Joe Biden during Kenyan President William Ruto’s...

Confirmation that the European Union's military mission in Mali will end at the weekend, coupled with the announcement several days later on 10 May, that the military-led transition...

Former President Laurent Gbagbo appears determined not to quit the political scene just yet after being named as presidential candidate for next year's elections by his Parti des...

The 6 May presidential poll was supposed to have been about creating a 'democratic veneer'. Instead, it is set to go to the country's Constitutional Court.

Catastrophic flooding has killed more than 200 people and destroyed thousands of homes in recent weeks, making it one of Kenya's worst natural disasters in living memory. Yet...

The diplomatic chill between Rwanda and the United States has got colder after Washington implicated the Rwandan army in mortar attacks that killed at least 16 people in...

Nigeria's state petroleum authority has made an unusual offer to the oil and gas giants who now want to sell up their assets in Nigeria: quick approval for...

Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja is under growing pressure after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua hinted that State House was ready to intervene in the governance of the city. The...

Days after the UK Parliament finally passed a law that will allow asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda where their claims will be considered, Prime Minister Rishi...

Quid pro quo appears to have been the name of the game in Kenyan President William Ruto's talks with Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the weekend.

Several African states may have returned to the Eurobond market in recent months, but a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has...

The 800,000 civilians living in the Sudanese city El Fasher are in 'extreme and immediate danger', the United Nations aid operations director, Edem Wosornu, has warned the UN...

President Faure Gnassingbé appears certain to strengthen his grip on power, whether or not that means staying on as head of state.

The African Union (AU) appears determined to enter the credit ratings market having set itself a 31 December deadline to launch its own agency.

United States senators are hoping to take US/Africa trade policy out of party politics in an election year, with Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons having tabled...

Ukraine continues to expand its diplomatic footprint in Africa, by opening embassies in Côte d'Ivoire and Congo-Kinshasa.

Confusion reigns over the status of Peter Mathuki the outgoing Secretary-General of the East African Community. Last month, Mathuki was abruptly recalled by Kenyan President William Ruto, and...

Angola's beleaguered former First Family has enjoyed a small victory after the country's constitutional court voided the 2020 conviction of José Filomeno dos Santos, aka Zenú, who has...

Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act will have at least one more round in court, and is set to move to the supreme court after the constitutional court upheld the law...

Côte d'Ivoire has boosted cocoa prices by 50%, a move seen by the market as an attempt to encourage farmers to raise production hit by crop disease and...

A missile attack apparently launched from the sea on the residence of Libya's Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in Tripoli's upscale Hay Andalus neighbourhood on 31 March underlines...

The semi-autonomous state of Puntland is again testing the authority of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu by pulling out of the country's federal system in protest at...

The Horn of Africa's Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) named South Sudanese lawyer Lawrence Korbandy as Special Envoy for Sudan on Tuesday.

The beleaguered African National Congress (ANC) is weighing up its options amid a damaging corruption probe against National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula that could do more harm to...

President Hakainde Hichilema's government appears to have taken a big step forward towards a major debt agreement after reaching a deal on Monday with a group of private...

A spate of murderous attacks and kidnappings is vying for President Bola Tinubu's attention alongside the continuing cost-of-living crisis. Over the last month in Kaduna state alone, over...

The backlash against the East African Community's former Secretary-General Peter Mathuki, who was quietly axed by Kenyan President William Ruto earlier this month after EAC lawmakers moved impeachment...

The French government's plans to push other EU countries to impose a bloc-wide ban on the export of used clothes could be another counter-productive piece of EU law.

Peter Mathuki has been abruptly recalled from his post as Secretary-General of the East African Community and is set to become Kenya's ambassador to Russia to avoid being...

South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has had its worst opinion poll result (39%) since multi-party democracy was introduced following apartheid in 1994, after a survey of...

Fears that May's presidential elections will amount to little more than a coronation for military leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' appear to have been confirmed after his...

Interim president Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' confirmed his plans to stand in presidential elections which are scheduled for 6 May – some five months ahead of schedule.

Initially planned for launch in 2024, the East African Community's plans for a monetary union, including a single currency and common central bank, were postponed until 2033 by...

The EU's deforestation law is facing growing pushback from African states and the wider international community over fears that the compliance burdens imposed by the new law will...

The decision by leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to lift economic sanctions on Niger's military regime is an embarrassing admission of...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's promise that his country would 'defend itself' if neighbouring Ethiopia goes ahead with a controversial port deal with breakaway province Somaliland has further...

African countries are set to raise formal complaints about the effects of some of the European Union's new laws on environmental protection and carbon at this week's Ministerial...

The announcement on the eve of the 17-18 February African Union summit by Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga that he wants to take over from Chad's...

On 18 February, armed state security agents surrounded a foreign currency trader in Abuja accusing him of sabotage. For many Nigerians, it was a throwback to the military...

Deepening hostilities between Kigali and Kinshasa were the subject of several closed-door meetings at African Union summit on 17-18 February in Addis Ababa. Yet on 19 February, the...

The political crisis following President Macky Sall's decision to postpone February's presidential election will be the subject of formal and informal discussions at this weekend's African Union summit...

Treasury officials say they are working on measures to stabilise the Zimbabwe dollar, including by linking its exchange rate to hard assets such as gold and creating a...

Following the death of the founder and chief executive of Access Bank Herbert Wigwe in a helicopter crash on 9 February, its directors moved quickly to appoint Bolaji...

President Macky Sall's postponing of the presidential election scheduled for 25 February risks plunging Senegal into a deeper political confrontation.

President Kaïs Saïed is piling on the pressure for Tunisia's central bank to become the latest African bank to provide billions of dollars in direct budget finance, a...

The refugee crisis in Sudan and wider regional instability could prompt tens thousands of people to move north, trying to cross into Europe, Filippo Grandi, the UN High...

The prospects for a United Nations-backed plan for Kenya to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to combat armed gangs have receded after the High Court in Nairobi...

Italy's far right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she understands that blocks on development in Africa are at the heart of the migration story.

The coordinated move by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to leave the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is the latest blow to Ecowas's credibility and...

African states in the Sahel and the Horn are facing their worst security crises for decades but United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will skate around those...

Confirmation that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, will not be on the ballot for February's presidential elections came after the electoral commission announced the 20 candidates who have been...

The growing fissures among East Africa's leaders over the civil war in Sudan were on show at last week's Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit in Kampala, and...

The legal tussle between Israel and South Africa over Pretoria's claims to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague that Israel is responsible for 'genocide' against...

President Félix Tshisekedi looks set to have a stronger majority in parliament despite widespread opposition anger about the conduct of December's elections.

Tanzania's foreign minister January Makamba and Kenyan counterpart Musalia Mudavadi are set to hold emergency talks to resolve the latest tit-for-tat trade row between Nairobi and Arusha.

The ballooning investigation into illegal foreign exchange transactions at the Central Bank of Nigeria under suspended governor Godwin Emefiele is rattling local firms who argue that some of...

As critical talks between ministers and official creditors (including the Paris Club and Chinese lenders) on restructuring US$5.4 billion of Ghana's external debt continue this week, a...

The scale of the challenge facing the Kenyan police as they prepare to support the Haitian National Police in its fights against criminal gangs has been spelt out...

The failure of Abiy Ahmed's government to make a US$33 million coupon payment on its only international government bond in late December confirmed Ethiopia's status as the third...

Félix Tshisekedi appears almost certain to be confirmed for a second term as President despite opposition protests about the conducting of the polls, which saw Tshisekedi obtain 73%...

Last week's visits to Ethiopia and Uganda were the first public trips abroad by Rapid Support Forces Commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' since the start of the...

Voting started in Congo-Kinshasa's national and local elections on 20 December after three hours of delays in the country's biggest cities, Kinshasa and Lumbumbashi. The latest independent opinion...

Chadians are widely expected to have approved a new constitution that will pave the way for elections next year after voting closed on 17 December. The results will...

President William Ruto's government has signed a trade deal with the European Union which Brussels has described as its most advanced with an African state on climate change...