DA triumvirate bets on black votes to break its political ceiling

Barely six months into his second term, President Peter Mutharika’s administration is engulfed in overlapping scandals that are raising questions about his commitment to end corruption.

Finance Minister Cheikh Diba is in Washington for high-stakes talks at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings from 13-18 April for a fresh funding programme as the...

Morocco is aiming to tighten its grip on Western Sahara by getting the United States Congress to designate the Sahrawi independence movement’s political arm, the Polisario Front, as...

As Beijing has started to hold back vital funding, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko faces intensifying pressure to reach an accommodation with the IMF. The open rift between the...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to office in May 2023 promising to reverse two decades of decline in Nigeria’s petroleum sector, and on paper the progress is real:...

When the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ZANU-PF gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill No.3 on 16 February, it launched what opponents are calling a slow-motion constitutional coup. Senior...

A forced shift to the local currency for government contracts and a 39% overnight fuel price rise are squeezing businesses and workers owed billions by the state. On...

When the Iran war pushed Brent crude well past the $100 mark, Angola’s government responded with caution. For a country that budgeted 2026 revenues assuming oil prices at...

Less than six months after oil exporter Angola issued US$1.75 billion in Eurobonds to support its 2025 spending plans, Luanda has returned to the markets after the Iran...

Impervious to African and international criticism, the government in Juba is pressing ahead with a militarist strategy that has led regional experts to argue that the country has...

The death of Nicholas ‘Fink’ Haysom in New York on 17 March strips the United Nations of its most tenacious voice for accountability in South Sudan and is...

In late January, government forces ordered civilians, UN personnel and humanitarian workers to move from several counties in Jonglei, including from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)...

When Modeste Bahati Lukwebo was hustled from the Senate Vice-Presidency on 18 March, accused of fiscal fraud tied to a brewery in Kivu-Sud, few in Kinshasa’s political class...

The Brussels Court of First Instance’s referral of Count Étienne Davignon, a former European Commissioner, for trial on charges relating to the assassination of Congo-Kinshasa’s first Prime Minister...

Central Intelligence Agency veterans and Green Berets are buying Congolese assets under a pact with Washington – a logic that also explains why the United States is unlikely...

As Romuald Wadagni approaches presidential election day on 12 April, abstentions pose the greatest threat to his hopes of securing a decisive mandate. With the main opposition...

Amid its fraying ties with the United States, the European Union is shoring up defences on its eastern flank and negotiating security deals in North and West Africa...

The Odinga family strengthened its grip on the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) following a Special National Delegates Convention (SDC) on 26 March but its political base will be...

When President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress swept back to power in December 2024 on a wave of popular goodwill, its pledge to nearly double the cocoa...

When President John Dramani Mahama convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in February to address what officials privately described as a ‘structural heart attack’ in Ghana's cocoa sector, few...