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 mov...

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 Commissione...

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 ruled that it w...

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 the gr...

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 regions on h...

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 w...

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 th...

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 t...