Even by the standards of Kenyan politics, where the bitterest political enemies in one election can become close allies at the next, the five members of Raila Odinga’s...

The decisive victory for Abdirahman Mahamed Abdullahi Irro with 64% in the 13 November presidential elections should be seen as the culmination of two years of politicking during...

Initial hopes that the mass protests in June against state corruption and police brutality would persuade President William Samoei Ruto to make the government more accountable were overblown....

The EU’s difficult relations with Rwanda were exposed last week when a series of MEPs demanded that Brussels’s minerals deal with Kigali be re-opened or scrapped because of...

There are indications Eritrea’s secretive president Issayas Afewerki is planning a rare congress of the country’s only legal party – the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ).

For all the ‘sturm und drang’ over the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua it is still unclear why he and President William Samoei Ruto fell out.

Rwanda’s military, invited by President Filipe Nyusi to push back insurgents and guard the gas export plant in Cabo Delgado, is expanding its security operations and business interests...

For the next few months of the dry season, the rival factions look set to concentrate their forces in the devastating battles for control of two cities and...

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...

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 weighing up...