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...