Africa in 2025

With voting nine months away, the campaigning and political tractations ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential elections are under way. The outcome will reverberate across the region. President Alassane...

This year should be the year of elections in the Central African Republic. Local elections, already rescheduled four times, are due in July, with a general election following...

Africa is set for faster growth and lower inflation this year – and the World Bank has upgraded growth projections for 2025 and 2026 – partly due to...

Many African leaders believe they can do business with new US President Donald Trump despite his previous lack of interest in the continent. A chorus of congratulatory messages...

With no sign of a thaw in the cold war between Algeria and Morocco, the Maghreb region will remain gripped by their stand-off and the Western Sahara dispute....

Two momentous decisions at the end of 2024 govern prospects for the regime in the year to come: the expulsion of France’s military and President Mahamat Déby Itno...

Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country’s cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening...

If there are prospects for an upturn in 2025, it’s only because security, morale and international coherence could hardly have been worse in 2024. Ethiopia fractured the international...

Daniel Chapo of the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) took the presidential oath on 15 January, but post-election protests have cast serious doubt over how effectively...

When they arrive in Addis Ababa for the African Union summit in February, African leaders will have to make some stark choices as they step-up efforts to tackle...

With electioneering expected to start in 2026, this year will test the opposition’s resolve to form a mega party that could unseat President Bola Tinubu and his All...

On 7 January, thousands of Ghanaians thronged Black Star Square in central Accra for John Dramani Mahama’s ‘second coming’, as many were calling his inauguration and return to...

After a year of turmoil when he appeared to be in office but not in power, President William Ruto wants to focus on building a new coalition to...

Cyril Ramaphosa’s grand political coalition has survived its first six months with modestly rising investment levels, lower inflation, and energy reforms. As the first African country to chair...

The failure to sustain the launch of Zimbabwe’s latest local currency – and the macro-economic consequences of that – will haunt the country and Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency in...

The Tanzanian polity is riven by speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by...

Malawi’s electoral process got off to an uncertain start as the opposition demanded the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission chair Judge Annabel Mtalimanja and took to the streets...

In mid-December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia. Under strong Turkish pressure –...

After 20 months of fighting, the dynamics of Sudan’s war are changing. Clashes in many of the most populated areas are slowing down because sides are trying to...

Despite mounting calls for Paul Biya to end his 42-year-long reign, the Cameroonian president intends to run again this year, hoping to lead the Central African nation for...