A collapse in daily oil output has been one of the results of the chaos engulfing Libya’s central bank. After the rival Benghazi-based government of Osama Hammad, backed...

The slow pace of delivering Mpox vaccines and limited funding for scientific research into the severity of strains suggests that Africa is little more prepared for Mpox than...

The defection of Floyd Shivambu to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party has dealt a hammer blow to Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), particularly now that Shivambu has...

Legislators are pressing ahead with new laws aimed at giving the police powers to break up demonstrations just weeks after the Generation Z protest movement swept across Kenya.

President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye faces an early test of his credentials in a damaging row over press freedom.

African diplomats have moved closer to setting up a new United Nations tax authority focused on illicit financial flows and tax evasion. But the triumph is far more...

Next year’s presidential elections are set to be a rerun of 2020, after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on 18 August endorsed former President Peter Mutharika as...

The arrest and detention of hundreds of opposition leaders and supporters on 11 August, ahead of a planned rally to mark International Youth Day on 12 August, suggests...

The Cold War politics in the Sahel has been given fresh heat after Mali announced it was severing ties with Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of involvement in a deadly...

Egypt will bid to host the 2036 and 2040 Summer Olympics, says Mustapha Berraf, the Algerian head of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), following...