On 31 January, a quiet ceremony took place at the Sergeant Adji Kossei air base in Ndjamena to mark the complete departure of all French troops from Chad,...

All eyes are on Sudan, especially now that the military dynamics are shifting in eastern and central areas in favour of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel...

Eight years of gruesome clashes between Anglophone separatists and government troops have brought a Federal Republic of Ambazonia in the North-West and South-West provinces, which some Anglophones call...

At her first press conference after being appointed as Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister last July, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner said that she aimed ‘to use diplomacy for more peace in...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is moving pieces at will around the regional chessboard in this deadliest of tournaments. His putative opponent in Kinshasa, President Félix Tshisekedi, is flailing,...

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his...

When Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and its Congolese allies, the M23 militia, captured Goma, the capital of Kivu-Nord province, over the weekend of 25-26 January, they exposed the...

This year should be the year of elections in the Central African Republic. Local elections, already rescheduled four times, are due in July, with a general election following...

Two momentous decisions at the end of 2024 govern prospects for the regime in the year to come: the expulsion of France’s military and President Mahamat Déby Itno...

Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country’s cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening...