How diplomat Youssouf triumphed over politician Odinga in AU race

Top officials in Freetown have expressed annoyance at the time it took the Dutch government to apply for the extradition of convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, despite telling...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is moving pieces at will around the regional chessboard in this deadliest of tournaments. His putative opponent in Kinshasa, President Félix Tshisekedi, is flailing,...

Despite its lofty ambitions, the African Union continues to punch well below its weight, reliant on foreign donors to finance the bulk of its budget and hamstrung by...

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his...

Tensions are rising between President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and opposition groupings over the date he is due to leave office. Embaló insists it is 4 September – that...

The government’s determination to hit its 3% GDP growth target and to push its policy agenda as it chairs the G20 this year dominated President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech...

Sierra Leone has been in a state of shock ever since one of Freetown’s most astonishing urban myths was confirmed as fact – that one of Europe’s most...

With voting nine months away, the campaigning and political tractations ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential elections are under way. The outcome will reverberate across the region. President Alassane...

The coalitions that will contest Kenya’s general elections in August 2027 are rapidly taking shape. For President William Ruto, the first step involves integrating the Amani National Congress...

As President Yoweri Museveni lays the groundwork for a seventh term next January, a pressing question remains, will he manage to control his mercurial son and heir apparent,...

When Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and its Congolese allies, the M23 militia, captured Goma, the capital of Kivu-Nord province, over the weekend of 25-26 January, they exposed the...

Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies, a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments, many of them African, have been filed under the US State Department’s Foreign...

The crowds in Bamako, Ouagadougou and Niamey celebrating their countries’ break with the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on 29 January belie the...

This year should be the year of elections in the Central African Republic. Local elections, already rescheduled four times, are due in July, with a general election following...

After seizing control of the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) party, Tundu Lissu now faces the gargantuan task of taking on President Samia Suluhu Hassan and...

Political pressure is mounting on Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics ahead of the imminent release of its GDP rebasing data. The statistical exercise could more than double the...

The European Union’s desperation to catch up with China’s mineral access is so great that it is willing to overlook evidence of mineral smuggling by M23 in eastern...