Massad Boulos senior Africa advisor to US President Donald Trump insists that both negotiating tracks are going to be strengthened in 2026 but neither Kinshasa nor Kigali faces serious pressure for enforcement...

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's overwhelming and fraudulent win at the polls in December which gave him a third term showcases two current trends in Africa: one the skills in dubious tactics and manipulation deployed by the Russians and their local African allies and second how accommodating to autocracy both France and President Donald Trump have been lately...

With the United States and France full square behind Morocco's claim – in a dispute whose resolution President Donald Trump sees adding lustre to his quest for a Nobel peace prize aided by Washington being the UN Security Council's Western Sahara penholder – Rabat is convinced events are moving in its favour...

After US President Donald J Trump hailed the strikes as a ‘Christmas present' for Islamist militants local opponents claimed the operation breached Nigerian sovereignty and risked exacerbating religious divisions...

Within the US the Somali community is also accused by supporters of President Donald J Trump for benefiting from fraud in Medicaid-funded services which the Department of Justice is investigating...

They are encouraged by President Donald Trump's 2 December comments that Somalis in Minnesota were ‘garbage' and see Representative Ilhan Omar's responses as evidence that the Mogadishu government is in deep trouble meaning recognition of Somaliland is around the corner...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi signed the peace agreement alongside US President Donald J Trump...