The ANC is running out of successors it can trust

With nearly 10.9 million votes at the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary, President Bola Tinubu is confident of a resounding victory at the January 2027 polls. He will...

When Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka told parliament on 6 May that the state would return 67 farms seized under the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and pay out...

In the modern industrial sector, Africa has barely moved beyond its traditional role in the global economic system as an exporter of raw commodities rather than purveyor of...

For the world’s most powerful states, the centrality of securing critical minerals – particularly for military and clean energy technology – has been underscored since the United States-Israeli...

President William Ruto has told allies he expects to win the 2027 general election ‘with a two to three million vote margin,’ confident that his record of international...

A brief televised decree late on 22 May ended Ousmane Sonko’s premiership and dissolved the government – breaking the pact that had carried Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the...

Washington’s labelling of Crawford Capital, which manages most of South Sudan’s non-oil revenues, as a ‘corrupt entity’ lands close to President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s office and his family....

The growing demand for a woman to head the UN next year and backing from Africa’s 54 member states could boost the chances for a last-minute run for...

On 15 May Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Conseil du Café-Cacao (CCC), raised estimates for Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa production to 2.2 million metric tons for 2025-26, almost...

‘We are [still] building the foundations for the next pandemic,’ said Dr Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2024, when African...

Colombian private military contractors transited through United Arab Emirates military bases before being deployed to Sudan to support the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Human Rights Watch (HRW) said...

A conference in Accra on 17-19 June by Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to map out the next steps in the pan-Africanist push for reparations for the...

There was enough mutual self-interest, measured in €23 billion (US$27bn) of commercial deals and diplomatic positioning ahead of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains in June, to make the...

Two international pandemic initiatives are in trouble due to disputes over access to vaccines and medicines in Africa. One, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), is trying...

The takeover of the Damang mine by Engineers & Planners (E&P) from South African-registered Gold Fields last month underscores the government’s resource nationalism drive but raises tricky legal...

As an act of economic diplomacy, Beijing’s offer of tariff- and quota-free trade to 53 African countries, coming into effect on 1 May, was expertly timed. In late...