Constitutional battles to follow Mahama’s removal of Chief Justice

As tensions deepen between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the managing director of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Bashir Bayo Ojulari, the government plans to claw...

The United Arab Emirates has puzzled many observers with its hostility towards the Somali federal President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and its active support of his opponents in the...

Four years since the deployment of Rwandan and Southern African Development Community forces in July 2021, the security situation in northern Cabo Delgado remains fraught – contradicting Maputo’s...

Almost three years after Sam Matekane’s Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) stormed to power on an anti-corruption and pro-business platform, Lesotho is reeling from tariff whiplash, a suspended United...

On 14 August, the defence ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – Generals Sadio Camara, Célestin Simporé and Salifou Modi – were in Moscow for talks with...

Canada’s Reconnaissance Energy Africa – ReconAfrica – first started drilling for oil and gas in the Kavango basin of north-eastern Namibia four years ago and has been mired...

When Nigeria’s National Security Advisor, Nuhu Ribadu, announced the arrest of two senior fighters affiliated with Al Qaida on 17 August, officials cited it as another success for...

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...