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...