The ANC pays the price of holding on to power

William Samoei Ruto’s rise to the presidency in August 2022 was framed as a David and Goliath story in which the underdog ‘hustler’ – Ruto – defeated Kenya’s...

A succession of defections by senior cadres in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) run by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti’ are changing the dynamics of its war with...

As conflict rages once more in the north of Africa’s second most-populous country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party government continue to talk up Ethiopia’s economic...

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) estimates that by 2030, the single market accord could mean a 28% rise in intra-African freight demand. Already, colonial-era ports...

Critics have accused the Commonwealth of failing to follow through on its pressure on Tanzania over human rights abuses and growing autocracy. The issue has not come up...

Russia’s limited economic weight is not holding back its growing diplomatic and military weight in Africa as its officials showed by negotiating new security agreements with the African...

A liquidity crunch in Ghana’s cocoa sector has forced the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) and the Ministry of Finance to seek domestic bond financing to fund cocoa purchases...

Having armed the military regimes that broke with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), Moscow is now courting the organisation they left behind. Russia wants to...

When Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie leaves office in December having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, President John Dramani Mahama will choose a successor who could...

NIGERIA: The state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to offer a 5% -10% stake in an initial public offering as the next step in its commercialisation...

Kenya’s politics is a permanent campaign. Less than two years after President William Samoei Ruto’s narrow defeat of Raila Amolo Odinga in August 2022, the Gen Z protests...

How far will Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed go in his bid to remake the regional order in the Horn of Africa? When open conflict between the federal...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approaches Nigeria’s 16 January presidential election with the strongest political machine, but little popular enthusiasm. Turnout in the elections is likely to be even...

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) is heading into the 4 November local government elections riding a wave of Zulu nationalism and anger against the African National...

Stronger forecasts and new investment plans at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on 12–18 October did little to dispel the shadow cast...