Peace talks falter as M23 tightens its grip on the Kivus

Congo-Kinshasa’s new Minister of Mines of Louis Watum Kabamba has inherited an ever more complex web of mining and trading relationships in a country that produces over 70%...

The annual conference of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF), which veers between sycophantic theatre and high-stakes factional drama, is set to host a fiery confrontation when...

Zimbabwe’s parliament is mulling a plan to modernise one of Africa’s most mineral-rich economies – but the long-delayed Mines and Minerals Bill may consolidate rather than challenge the...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party are approaching presidential and parliamentary elections on 29 October, from which the leading opposition party Chadema...

The global spotlight has shifted away from Africa’s jihadist wars, but the violence has not. As western military forces disengage and attention shifts to Ukraine and Gaza, militant...

New research exposing systematic government failures across health, education, and infrastructure reveals why Uganda ranks 157th out of 193 countries in the UN’s Human Development Index in 2024-25,...

The campaign by Cameroon’s opposition coalition has been picking up speed but too slowly to unite and present a serious challenge to 92-year-old President Paul Biya in elections...

After their comfortable election win, 85-year-old former president Peter Mutharika and his running mate Jane Ansah are expected to move quickly with an economic stabilisation plan after they...

More questions are being raised about the accountability of lobbying companies after it has emerged in filings lodged with the United States government that veteran CIA agent Dale...

The trials of over 50 activists charged with treason for offences linked to the 25 June protests against police killings and the 7 July Saba Saba (‘Seven Seven’)...

For the second year in a row, they are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but on the ground their work is getting ever more difficult. After the...

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...

Persistent fears of renewed large-scale war in northern Ethiopia stem from the failings of the Pretoria peace agreement – radical in ambition, limited in scope. In 2022, Prime...

After a year of sweeping macro-economic reforms – floating the birr, tightening budgets and adopting an interest-rate-based monetary policy – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has secured a...