10th Mar 2022

10th Mar 2022

3rd Mar 2022

President Vladimir Putin's first visit to Africa in 2006 launched Moscow's renewed push for economic and security ties with the continent. Its success was celebrated at the October 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi which 50 African countries and 43 head
3rd Mar 2022

To some First Lady Fatima Bio is a strong astute politician in her own right but to others a bully who may have overstepped her bounds in the party and State House and has her eyes on the presidency in 2028. That's a charge she hotly denies. One factio
3rd Mar 2022

African and European officials have agreed to move the centre for counter-insurgency operations in the Sahel from Mali to Niger but questions remain about how to manage the logistics and the schedule. Nigérien officials worry about the political reactions
16th Feb 2022

The military takeover in Ouagadougou the third in West Africa in a year is a challenge to neighbouring governments especially Niger and the region's wider security strategy. In different ways jihadist insurgents linked to Al Qaida and Da'ish (Islamic
26th Jan 2022

The charges of impunity favouritism corruption and subverting the constitution that President Julius Maada Bio now faces uncomfortably resemble those he flung at his predecessor President Ernest Bai Koroma during his presidency. Maada Bio suspended t
7th Jan 2022

African diplomats are becoming exasperated by China's demands for diplomatic support on every issue from Covid-19's origins to the human rights of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province whether it's in the World Health Organization the UN Human Rights Council
20th Oct 2021

A decade after being sworn into office by judges in vermilion and ermine President Alpha Condé of Guinea became the prisoner of an elite military unit that stormed the presidential palace in the small hours of 5 September. A remarkable image framed his f
9th Sep 2021