Foreign leaders including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden raised the issue of Abdel Fattah during their meetings with Sisi but the authorities persisted in their hardline stance...

Ramaphosa's domestic election battle means he's unlikely to attend US President Joe Biden's African leaders' summit on 13-15 December...

5bn five-nation loan fund for the so-called Just Energy Transition will require further funding beyond the additional $45m announced by United States President Joe Biden when Ramaphosa visited Washington in September...

But the risk at that meeting which is set to be the first face-to-face encounter since the pandemic between China's Xi Jinping Russia's Vladimir Putin and US's Joe Biden is that geopolitics again push cooperations on debt and climate to the margins...

Ramaphosa pressed United States President Joe Biden at a 16 September meeting to lift the sanctions but the US does not seem to be having a change of heart...

Sall used his slot as opening speaker at the UNGA on 20 September after swapping his place with US President Joe Biden to reinforce his argument for Africa taking a non-aligned position in the stand-off between the west on the one hand and Russia and China on the other...

In his speech to the General Assembly US President Joe Biden endorsed reform of the UN Security Council and its domination by the permanent veto-wielding five members...

Gongloe wants Weah himself put on the sanctions list and for President Joe Biden to withdraw the summit invitation...

President Joe Biden and his western allies risk losing influence in the region regardless of fist-bumps...