When he announced the end of Opération Barkhane, France's 5,100-strong military force deployed across the Sahel for the past eight years, President Emmanuel Macron said he owed 'consistency'...

United States President Joe Biden's backing for an unlikely patent-waiver for Covid-19 vaccines is deft political manoeuvring. It announced the USA's return as lead player international development issues...

The Covid-19 experience in Africa has been something of a rollercoaster ride. Early predictions were calamitous, then it seemed to pass ominously mildly (unless you were in South...

If President Emmanuel Macron needed a reminder of his country's reputation in Africa it came with the fury on the streets of Ndjamena to his ill-phrased remarks at...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank upped their forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa's growth at their 2021 Spring Meetings, but the economic impact from Covid-19 is still...