Six people were reported killed and a further 15 injured by gunfire in clashes on 13 January, in the first of three days of planned protests called by...

Canadian mining company Barrick Gold has pulled the plug on operations at its Loulo-Gounkoto complex in Mali after the Malian government seized an estimated 3 metric tonnes of...

The kidnapping and subsequent release hours later of the Tanzanian political activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai in Nairobi is the latest in a chilling series of abductions involving the...

The fate of the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) is in doubt after Burundi announced that it would refuse to participate because its...

Masisi town, the administrative capital of the Masisi territory in North Kivu, has become the latest to be taken by the Rwandan-backed M23 militia group, whose recent incursion...

Mozambique is set for a showdown this week after Venâncio Mondlane, the presidential candidate of the opposition Partido Otimista pelo Desenvolvimento de Moçambique (Podemos), announced that he will...

President William Ruto is under mounting pressure to halt a wave of abductions, mainly of youth activists since the nationwide Gen Z protests in June, which are widely...

The crisis over the presidential election results has deepened following a prison riot in Maputo on Christmas Day. At least 30 were killed in clashes between inmates and...

President João Lourenço’s pardoning of José Filomeno dos Santos, aka Zenú, the son of his predecessor President José Eduardo dos Santos, who had been imprisoned for fraud, marks...

The diplomatic chill between the Sahelian military juntas and France grew colder over Christmas after Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani accused France of allying with militant groups,...