The opposition must solve its alliance arithmetic

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...

President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s promotion of Zimbabwe’s richest oligarch, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, to the new post of Minister of Economic Development and Investment on 8 October marginalises the more...

The battle over Europe’s pesticide overhaul highlights competing interests on both sides of the Mediterranean. Scientists and civic activists complain about lobbyists for agrochemical companies and farming organisations...

Britain’s newish Prime Minister Andy Burnham has made little secret that foreign policy is not his main interest. By appointing Ed Miliband, a former Labour leader, as Foreign...

Nyesom Wike’s talent for troublemaking has helped Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disrupt and co-opt large swathes of the opposition since 2023. By taking a lucrative federal portfolio,...

More than 3,000 people marched through Tunis on 18 October in the biggest pro-democracy protests since President Kaïs Saïed took power in 2019.

For the second time this decade, the leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) appear to have made a strategic error that has forced them to flee...

The Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) has pushed deep into Tigray, capturing the regional capital, Mekelle, on 4 October after a rapid turnaround on several fronts. The advance...

Retired Constitutional Court judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s inquiry inquiry into criminal influence over the police service is developing into a broader test of confidence in all the institutions responsible...

The fallout from the stolen election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) last October, and the mass killing of protestors, has neither...

The death of flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo in a helicopter crash on 30 September has jolted the pan-African networks that he built around money, access and political favour....

Centralising all power under his office ahead of elections scheduled for 22 December, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dissolved the transitional government and legislatures while retaining...