Britain

‘A new approach to Africa’ was the promise of Britain’s Labour government, led by Sir Keir Starmer, ahead of its 16 December launch. Yet after six months of...

The days of London’s biggest football club, Arsenal, proclaiming ‘Visit Rwanda’ on its players’ sleeves are over after the club confirmed that its eight-year sponsorship deal with Rwanda’s...

More than 15 years have passed since British-based Tullow Oil came to the remote plains of northern Kenya, raising expectations of transformation. Once oil was confirmed, it was...

A quarter of a century after Britain under Prime Minister Tony Blair led the charge against Zimbabawe President Robert Mugabe’s land resettlement plan, the two governments – both...

If anyone questioned that the Gulf States United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with their less pecunious partner Egypt, hold a veto on Sudan policy, the conference in...

About US$750 million in fresh humanitarian aid – €522m ($592m) from the European Union and £120m ($158m) from the United Kingdom – was on the table along with...

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his...

Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland’s plan to re-admit Zimbabwe has run into resistance from Britain’s Labour government, diplomatic sources have told Africa Confidential. It was felt that taking...

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Shirley Botchwey, Lesotho’s former Trade and Finance Minister Joshua Setipa, and Gambia’s former former Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara are the top three candidates in the...

Budgetary cuts, domestic priorities and personnel wrangles have dominated the early months of Britain’s new Labour government – to the detriment of its planned ‘reset’ of foreign policy....