The last-minute cancellation of a press conference in Nairobi on 13 January by senior officials in the Rapid Support Forces suggests that its commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo...

The Tanzanian polity is riven by speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by...

After 20 months of fighting, the dynamics of Sudan’s war are changing. Clashes in many of the most populated areas are slowing down because sides are trying to...

In mid-December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia. Under strong Turkish pressure –...

After a year of turmoil when he appeared to be in office but not in power, President William Ruto wants to focus on building a new coalition to...

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).