US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos and US hedge fund executive Gentry Beach – both with close links to US President Donald J Trump’s family – were prime movers...

Founded by the Vodafone team behind M-Pesa, M-Kopa has seen similar commercial success and political backing. At a 2015 entrepreneurship summit with President Barack Obama, then-President Uhuru Kenyatta...

Social media attacks on rivals by General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president’s son and head of Uganda’s military, are widening divisions in the ruling family. Over the past few...

A champion of African literature and the rejection of colonial languages as a means to convey it, Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who died on 28 May, was often...

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...

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...