Whitehall’s soft power shrinks as the BBC cuts back again

When Spain’s Guardia Civil intercepted a cargo vessel, off the Western Sahara coast carrying over 30 tonnes of cocaine on 1 May – the biggest such interdiction in...

Officials in President Félix Tshisekedi’s government are increasingly frustrated by the flow of sophisticated Chinese-made weapons sold to Rwanda, then handed over to the Mouvement du 23 Mars...

In the wake of April’s attacks that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara and sent junta leader General Assimi Goïta into hiding, it was with Russia’s ambassador in Bamako,...

Congolese voters have been presented with a fait accompli but their acquiescence is not guaranteed. President Felix Tshisekedi, who is midway through his second term, says the rebel...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government faces a challenge that reaches far beyond immigration. The rise of anti-immigration movements across South Africa is exposing deeper doubts about the country’s ability...

The Ghana government’s repatriation of over 950 Ghanaian citizens from South Africa has yielded a surge in support locally for President John Mahama’s government even as it signals...

Ghana’s exit from its US$3 billion International Monetary Fund lending programme in May, followed by an economic roadshow in London including meetings with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and...

Parliament’s debate on Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3 starting on 2 June has opened a wider battle over Zimbabwe’s political order, as the bill would extend elected terms...

Coordination and harmonisation is the mantra of health officials as they race to contain the Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. With no vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain beyond...

The IMF’s warning on 9 June to President Bola Tinubu’s government of the financial risks of a US$5 billion loan package via a series of derivative contracts with...

The investigation into over US$20 billion of forward oil sales by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is widening its remit to include top officials of the...

Even a year ago, few would have imagined that Kisumu, Kenya’s main port city on Lake Victoria, and late opposition leader Raila Odinga’s fiefdom for four decades, would...

For months, Speaker of Parliament Anita Among looked too powerful to remove. She had money, reach and an expanding network inside the ruling National Resistance Movement, but those...

Lengthy queues formed before the polling stations opened at six in the morning on 1 June in national elections that are expected to produce an overwhelming majority for...

Hopes that the swingeing aid cuts, which have reduced official development assistance by almost 30% over the last two years, might be slowed or reversed have been comprehensively...

The Africa Finance Corporation’s US$2 billion syndicated loan on 4 June – the largest in the AFC’s 17-year history – marked the latest success in President and Chief...