Support for democracy across Africa appears is ebbing due to falling governance standards, according to a new annual survey covering 39 African states by the Accra-based think tank...

New Prime Minister Kamil Idris’s decision to dissolve the government in preparation to form a new cabinet breaches the 2020 peace agreement, according to some political parties, including...

Five Democratic Congress members have sent a letter to President Donald Trump’s Africa advisor Massad Boulos demanding details of the administration’s deal on critical minerals that has accompanied...

Burkina Faso’s military government says that industrial gold production will increase by 4% this year on the back of projects led by Mauritian and Australian firms. That extra...

African leaders should make their positions on the future of the United States’ military command in Africa known in the coming months, Africom commander General Michael Langley told...

Raising capital will be the first immediate challenge facing Sidi Ould Tah, elected on 27 May as the new president of the African Development Bank (AfDB). His previous...

The European Union may not be putting anything new on the table but it ‘is the partner Africa can rely on’, the EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs...

The detention and torture of Boniface Mwangi, one of Kenya’s most prominent civil society activists, is the latest move by President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s increasingly authoritarian government. Hassan...

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is taking heat at home over his government’s £3.4 billion deal with Mauritius that will allow Britain to retain control of the...

The mood music out of Brussels suggests that relations with Africa are not getting priority at the European Commission despite rhetorical assurances to the contrary. That is reflected...