President William Ruto's government has signed a trade deal with the European Union which Brussels has described as its most advanced with an African state on climate change and la...

Somalia has secured a US$4.5 billion debt write-off from global lenders, marking the culmination of a decade-long process of negotiations and a major political coup for President H...

A decade-long crackdown on political dissent has eliminated any serious opposition to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, who is almost certain to secure a third six-year term in power...

Confusion reigns as the government continues its investigations into the failed coup against President Julius Maada Bio.

Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly signed a revised treaty with Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta on 5 December in a bid to rescue the cash-for-asylum-seekers agreement...

Former Katanga governor and mining mogul Moïse Katumbi and Martin Fayulu are emerging as the most viable challengers to President Félix Tshisekedi in elections due on 2...

The sentencing of Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in jail for corruption is partly about putschists falling out – a storyline which looks ...

Due to accede to Liberia's presidency in January after beating incumbent George Weah by less than 2%, Unity Party candidate Joseph Boakai's election victory gives electoral politic...

The campaign for reparations for slavery has been boosted after a summit in Ghana on 16 November, where the African Union (AU) joined forces with Caribbean nations as well as Afric...

Buoyed by recent opinion polls that suggest that they could deny the African National Congress an outright majority at the 2024 general elections for the first time since 1994, the...