Africa in 2026

An early test will be internal elections in William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – initially supposed to take place in mid-2024 but which will now happen on...

Rwanda has kept its extensive operations in Congo-Kinshasa off-budget by reviving its military’s involvement in the eastern Congolese mineral trade. Evidence of increased military spending could have derailed...

Any joy at Mogadishu’s successful completion of local elections on 26 December was quickly extinguished by the shock news of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state,...

Keeping the economy afloat in the face of international moves to suspend funding and investments is the biggest challenge facing President Samia Suluhu Hassan as she attempts to...

Sudan’s conflict is changing. What started as a military confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023 has evolved into something else...

The government of Yoweri Museveni is leaving nothing to chance, and the president’s son (and presumed heir), Defence Forces chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been put at the...

The succession questions surrounding Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 92, are more urgent than ever despite his inauguration for his eighth term in November. The fraud around last year’s...

The inner circle around President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka’ is in turmoil, especially since the fall of El Fasher, the capital of the Sudanese province of Darfur,...

In the opening days of 2026, the latest UN experts’ report confirmed the widely held view that the war aims of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and its...

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s overwhelming, and fraudulent, win at the polls in December which gave him a third term, showcases two current trends in Africa: one, the skills in...