The trial of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who may face a seven-year sentence if convicted on corruption charges, is shedding light on France’s backchannel talks with the government...

Initially TotalEnergies’ use of Washington lobbyists to push through a vital US loan for its US$20 billion gas export project in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province backfired. France’s TotalEnergies...

After capturing the bombed-out Republican Palace in Khartoum on the banks of the Blue Nile, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) is celebrating a symbolic...

President Bola Tinubu’s imposition of a state of emergency in oil-producing Rivers State where crude pipelines have been damaged in a series of attacks has secured parliamentary support...

After a majority in parliament failed to back Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s amended budget on 12 March he still has more drafting to do to get it over...

By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

The political and security schisms in the Sahel have intensified as relations between the three military ruled states – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – and the regional...

Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan has escalated the propaganda war against President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) and the United Arab Emirates,...

In line with his opposition to renewable energy projects, President Donald J Trump’s decision to revoke and rescind the United States International Climate Finance Plan will mean cancelling...

Former President Joseph Kabila has re-emerged from the political wilderness, holding talks with opposition politicians about Congo-Kinshasa's political future and issuing a fierce denunciation of his successor, Félix...