The ANC pays the price of holding on to power

Critics have accused the Commonwealth of failing to follow through on its pressure on Tanzania over human rights abuses and growing autocracy. The issue has not come up...

Russia’s limited economic weight is not holding back its growing diplomatic and military weight in Africa as its officials showed by negotiating new security agreements with the African...

A liquidity crunch in Ghana’s cocoa sector has forced the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) and the Ministry of Finance to seek domestic bond financing to fund cocoa purchases...

Having armed the military regimes that broke with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), Moscow is now courting the organisation they left behind. Russia wants to...

Kenya’s politics is a permanent campaign. Less than two years after President William Samoei Ruto’s narrow defeat of Raila Amolo Odinga in August 2022, the Gen Z protests...

How far will Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed go in his bid to remake the regional order in the Horn of Africa? When open conflict between the federal...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approaches Nigeria’s 16 January presidential election with the strongest political machine, but little popular enthusiasm. Turnout in the elections is likely to be even...

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) is heading into the 4 November local government elections riding a wave of Zulu nationalism and anger against the African National...

Stronger forecasts and new investment plans at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on 12–18 October did little to dispel the shadow cast...

President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s promotion of Zimbabwe’s richest oligarch, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, to the new post of Minister of Economic Development and Investment on 8 October marginalises the more...

The battle over Europe’s pesticide overhaul highlights competing interests on both sides of the Mediterranean. Scientists and civic activists complain about lobbyists for agrochemical companies and farming organisations...

Britain’s newish Prime Minister Andy Burnham has made little secret that foreign policy is not his main interest. By appointing Ed Miliband, a former Labour leader, as Foreign...

Nyesom Wike’s talent for troublemaking has helped Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disrupt and co-opt large swathes of the opposition since 2023. By taking a lucrative federal portfolio,...

More than 3,000 people marched through Tunis on 18 October in the biggest pro-democracy protests since President Kaïs Saïed took power in 2019.

For the second time this decade, the leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) appear to have made a strategic error that has forced them to flee...