President Félix Tshisekedi may be readying himself for a re-election campaign but the conflicts in the country's eastern provinces are raging on and threatening national sovereignty. The M23...

There's a chronic insurgency in Anglophone Cameroon, militant jihadists in the north, and democrats and civil society bodies yearning for relief from rigged elections and suppression of free...

President Paul Biya has shuffled military posts and reorganised defence ministry departments to forestall any attempt by the army to take power. Whether he has done enough to...

The speed at which General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who is due to be sworn in as transitional president on 4 September, has consolidated power suggests his putsch...

A top ally of presidential candidate and Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi has been murdered in Kinshasa, leading to speculation that would-be presidential candidates are being intimidated into...

As international attention flickered on the failing talks in Jeddah mediated by officials from Saudi Arabia and the United States, the war between Sudan's military factions has been...

President Emmanuel Macron is leading an international effort, including Rwanda and the UN – with growing United States support – to lift the pressure on President Faustin-Archange Touadéra...

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has announced plans to carry out a preliminary investigation of alleged human rights abuses in North Kivu by the M23 militia,...

In one of the most egregious mining contracts signed so far by President Félix Tshisekedi's government, he has endorsed the award of 'exclusive rights' over the country's entire...

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who was previously thought to be bowing to French and western pressure to sever or curtail relations with the Wagner Group of mercenaries, appears now...