Escalating violence could reshape Tinubu’s plan for 2027 vote

A three-hour meeting in Zurich between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and United States President Donald Trump’s Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos on...

To ease the cashflow crisis that triggered mass protests and weakened the shilling – as the Treasury used precious dollars to pay its Eurobond debts – President William...

The most serious problem with South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya’s visit to Iran from 12 to 14 August was that President Cyril Ramaphosa...

The cost of living, Gulf States investors and the government’s authoritarian turn are set to dominate the elections on 27 September. They will be the first national...

Morocco is vying with Egypt to become United States President Donald J Trump’s main ally in North Africa, after recognising Israel, with which it has long-standing security ties,...

The ruling by the UN’s top court that countries may be held legally accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental damage they cause could help reshape...

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni returned once more to Tunisia at the end of July to ink the Mattei Plan with President Kaïs Saïed. This long-awaited strategic partnership...

Africa’s cocoa and coffee farmers are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to postpone its anti-deforestation law due to come into force next year. They are calling...

When France’s Secretary of State for la Francophonie and International Partnerships, Thani Mohamed-Soilihi told journalists on 27 July that the security crisis in the Sahel was no longer...

The latest round of arrests in Mali, amid reports of a planned putsch on 10 August, looks unlikely to change the centralisation of power in Bamako or in...

African unity – alongside climate solutions and access to adaptation finance – will top the agenda at the second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa, which runs from...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has strengthened his control over his government’s economic ministries by appointing his eldest daughter, Adut Salva Kiir, as a senior economic advisor and dismissing...

The European Union and Spain have ‘incentivized repression’ of migration by funding and supporting Mauritanian forces to bolster border and migration controls without ensuring adequate human rights safeguards,...

On most measures, President Bola Tinubu has emphatically improved the position of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria – despite the unpopularity of many of its economic...