Any joy at Mogadishu’s successful completion of local elections on 26 December was quickly extinguished by the shock news of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state,...

Keeping the economy afloat in the face of international moves to suspend funding and investments is the biggest challenge facing President Samia Suluhu Hassan as she attempts to...

Sudan’s conflict is changing. What started as a military confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023 has evolved into something else...

The government of Yoweri Museveni is leaving nothing to chance, and the president’s son (and presumed heir), Defence Forces chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been put at the...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s federal government in Mogadishu is being targeted for security and governance failures by senior Republicans in the United States who want Washington to recognise...

Ethiopia has posted a staggering rise in gold exports, earning US$3.5 billion from 37 tonnes in the fiscal year ending 7 July, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told the...

Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s stock had risen after he and Kenya’s President William Ruto were invited to the signing of the peace deal in Washington. Less than two...

Uganda was the unlikely blocker of a draft resolution proposed by Colombia and Oman on the environmentally sound management of minerals and metals at the United Nations Environment...

The air is thick with contradictory indicators about Somalia’s future, from online warnings that Mogadishu is about to be overrun by Al Shabaab through to media articles saying...

It has taken less than a week for a brutal reality to intrude on the brash hopes for the peace accord signed between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda in Washington...