Fight for Darfur and Khartoum intensifies

Two raging urban battles – in Khartoum and El Fasher in North Darfur – could determine the next stage in Sudan’s devastating war: the de facto partition of the co...

Ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) and leading opposition politician Venâncio Mondlane, an independent who ran on the ticket of th...

The state-backed Comissão Nacional de Eleições (CNE) has released results from each province, indicating a strong win for the ruling party Frente de Liberta&cc...

President Bola Tinubu ate his dish of revenge lukewarm last month when he orchestrated the defeat of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State gove...

General Abdourahamane Tiani’s military junta has carried out its threat to revoke the uranium mining licences of companies deemed not to have progressed their projects quickl...

Budgetary cuts, domestic priorities and personnel wrangles have dominated the early months of Britain’s new Labour government – to the detriment of its planned ‘r...

In response to growing outrage at the damage to farmland, livelihoods and the wider economy caused by galamsey mining, the government has promised to set up four specialised courts...

With the most credible opposition figures in detention or boycotting the presidential election on 6 October, Kaïs Saïed’s victory was pre-ordained and pointless at ...

On 9 October, ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) faces its toughest election since multi-party politics started in 1994. A wild card quasi-ind...

If Raila Odinga has name recognition across the continent, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has the contact book. That, at least, is the argument at the heart of Djibouti’s bid for the A...

Despite Kenyan ministers publicly claiming to have at least 26 votes locked up for Raila Odinga, many pundits believe that the battle to lead the African Union Commission is a 50/5...

The United Kingdom’s defunct ‘cash for asylum seekers’ deal with Rwanda could be brought back to life – by the EU.

The confirmation of Rigathi Gachagua’s defenestration as deputy president by the Senate as Africa Confidential went to press has left Mount Kenya and the Gikuyu community wei...

It bears the hallmarks of a grandiosity guaranteed to rile isolationists gearing up for the fight of their lives in the United States presidential election on 5 November. When the ...

Many Nigerians say the country is going through the worst hardship for 30 years, with an economy blighted by spiralling prices, capital flight and grand corruption. And rights and ...

Paul Biya has not been seen in public since leaving Beijing on 8 September after attending the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC). Government sources say Cameroon’s 9...

In the end it was a rout. Out of 345 seats currently occupied in the National Assembly, 293 MPs voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, comfortably above the two-thirds...