Talks on $21 billion debt could inch ahead if IMF backs Ncube’s plan

Preliminary hearings have begun in the trial for bribery of Malawian/British business owner and Malawi government contractor Zuneth Sattar, 44, who is charged with 18 counts of bribing...

When the Rapid Support Forces launched a fusillade of drones against Port Sudan on 4 May, they once again changed the terms of engagement in the devastating two-year...

Regional players are adjusting their strategies as conflicts in the Horn of Africa intensify. United States President Donald Trump’s three-country trip to the Gulf from 16 to 19...

When the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) deregistered the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on 14 May, it raised fears of a new war in northern Ethiopia. This...

Two more sharp reminders of the cultural and political realities have jolted President Emmanuel Macron as he struggles to reshape France’s relations with Africa which have reached a...

The spiralling cost of capital, foundering efforts to restructure public debt and the election of a successor to Akinwumi Adesina as president of Development Bank (AfDB) are topping...

Although he beat ex-President Edgar Lungu by a landslide in the 2021 election, President Hakainde Hichilema believes his old enemy is an obstacle to his hopes of re-election...

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was preparing to mark two years in power on 29 May, his allies in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) declared the 73-year-old...

Anger with the Government of National Unity (GNU) of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba was already on the rise when one of the militia-infested capital’s most powerful chiefs,...

Until a month ago, the chances of President Cyril Ramaphosa getting a constructive meeting with his United States counterpart Donald J Trump appeared vanishingly small. After a barrage...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s tenure, once praised for its democratic reforms, has taken a sharp authoritarian turn. After initially reversing some of the repressive policies of her predecessor,...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit is the latest African leader to enlist a Republican-linked lobbying firm on K-Street, hiring Scribe Strategies & Advisors on a six-month, $500,000...

The launch of Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) marks the latest challenge to President William Ruto’s standing in central Kenya, a region where he claimed...

It was the depth of Ghana’s economic crisis that swept John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress to such a decisive victory in the presidential and parliamentary...