The Polisario Front’s lawyers are heading back to the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg after Oubi Bouchraya, Polisario’s legal advisor, confirmed that they would file a legal...

Africa Union and European Union leaders insist they want to ratchet up economic security ties ahead of their two-day summit starting in Angola on 25 November, just after...

At the Environment and Land Court in Nairobi on 13 November, justices began hearing a landmark lawsuit seeking to ban multinational manufacturers and local distributors from placing toxic...

Chaos surrounds the European Union’s anti-deforestation regulation. Following a series of U-turns and carve outs, the law will not affect African farmers until June 2026, 18 months later...

Who will invest in local refining and processing of critical minerals was the question posed by African leaders at the Global Gateway Forum hosted by the European Union...

The EU signed off on a new trade agreement with Morocco on 4 October that will include goods from the disputed Western Sahara region. The deal has been...

Africa’s cocoa and coffee farmers are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to postpone its anti-deforestation law due to come into force next year. They are calling...

Known primarily for operating patrol vessels in the Mediterranean and off the West Atlantic at key crossing points, the European Union’s border control agency Frontex is expanding ...

Data showing that irregular crossings from Tunisia and Libya fell by 59% to 66,766 in 2024, prompted Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the European Union to trumpet...

The civic activists, businesspeople, former and serving top UN and government officials agreed on one headline at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation conference in Marrakech at the beginning of...

The European Commission plans to ‘diversify’ relations with its trading partners as it faces the reality of United States President Donald J Trump imposing tariffs of 25% on...

After spending over €8 billion on cash for migration controls with authoritarian regimes in North Africa in 2024, the European Commission is focusing on similar deals – but...

Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...

As the new United States administration targets South Africa on policy and the European Union on tariffs, it has triggered an opposite reaction – bringing President Cyril Ramaphosa...

The European Union’s desperation to catch up with China’s mineral access is so great that it is willing to overlook evidence of mineral smuggling by M23 in eastern...

A severe bout of pneumonia put a hold on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plans to visit Morocco last week, but nothing it appears can halt...