How Tigray is turning on itself

A string of investment announcements for electric vehicle production across Africa are expected at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in Beijing from 4-6 September. Previ...

One of the ‘seeds of hope’ identified by United States envoy Tom Perriello as the Sudan peace talks in Switzerland broke up on 23 August was an accord to allow relief a...

It is a mark of the intractability of the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that during the peace talks in Switzerland from 14-23 August ...

One year after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic demise, the legacy of his efforts to frame Russia as a liberator of Africa from western neocolonialism lives o...

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced on 27 August that ‘after a careful review of’ Africa Confidential’s special report on how the Univ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s grand plan to raise over US$10 billion from international financial institutions and the restructuring of Ethiopia’s $28bn foreign debt afte...

Leaders are set to back a UN tax convention with a mandate to agree global tax policy on wealth, environmental levies and illicit financial flows at the UN General Assembly in Sept...

The Angolan government’s tactics to boost oil and gas investment – cutting production taxes, wooing the biggest conglomerates and quitting the Organization of the Petro...

Amid regional turbulence, President William Ruto showed Kenya’s pulling power with a star-studded launch on 27 August for his former foe, Raila Odinga’s campaign to lea...

The odd man out in the latest round of political musical chairs is Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua as Kenya’s political parties realign to prepare for the 2027 elections. ...

Prospects of an election being held before a 22 December deadline are fading rapidly with a number of political groups both in opposition and in the transitional government insisti...

On 28 August, former Samburu governor Moses Lenolkulal was convicted of corruption and told to repay 84.5 million shillings (US$600,000) or face eight years in prison. Lenolkulal s...

Only 2% of Africa’s exports of energy transition minerals are destined for other African countries, according to a new report by the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) lobby. That l...

The threat of more mass protests and the spiralling cost of petrol, over 1,000 naira (62 US cents) a litre in parts of Nigeria, have played to Aliko Dangote’s advantage in hi...

Dakar political life is slowing down in August giving President Bassirou Diomaye Faye some time to weigh up whether to dissolve the National Assembly in September and call early le...

The arrests of hundreds of opposition leaders and activists planning to attend rallies marking International Youth Day, suggests that the spirit of former President John Magufuli l...

An Africa Confidential Special ReportBy Josef Skrdlik and Andrew WeirRead this Special Report here: