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...

Widespread scepticism greeted Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah’s announcement at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan on 12 May that three years of military dictatorship will come to...

The average yield on Angola’s dollar bonds has soared above 13.5% in recent weeks, prompting Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa to shelve plans to test the...

Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has ruled out any new tax rises in his budget plan for 2025/26, arguing that greater efficiency in revenue collection will be sufficient.

Facing public opposition to General Assimi Goïta’s plans to stay in power until 2030, his military junta has suspended all political activities across the country ahead of protests...