The United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, ambassadors in Bangui, the Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and a slew of regional bodies met on 23...

The fight for control of eastern Congo-Kinshasa is intensifying in the weeks leading up to the country's elections due on 20 December. At the centre of it is...

A month after General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his allies seized power in the wake of the disputed elections, the new regime is stepping up its diplomatic...

For now, the national presidential and polling elections are still set for 20 December, but many political activists suspect the government could still change the schedule. The most...

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...