Most member states in the East African Community (EAC) have reacted with bemusement to Kenya's signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. The signing of...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's application to join the BRICS economic grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) looks to be mostly about political symbolism and attempting to...

Deadly attacks on the main opposition party, arrests of opposition supporters, and claims of 'statistical inconsistencies' in the voter tabulation overshadowed the presidential elections on 25 June which...

The rejection by the Public Protector of accusations against President Cyril Ramaphosa of wrongdoing over the discovery that he and his employees had been storing hundreds of thousands...

Frustrated by the lack of progress on debt relief schemes and the launch of a UN-managed tax to compensate countries for 'loss and damage' caused by climate change,...

Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, faces one of her toughest legal challenges after a Dutch court ruled last week that she...

A decade after details emerged of US$2 billion hidden loans to finance a bogus maritime security project embroiled Credit Suisse and Russia's VTB bank, the former finance minister...

Several key sources in Al Jazeera's lengthy investigation into gold smuggling by officials in Zimbabwe claimed business links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxilia.

Colonel Assimi Goïta appears to hold all the cards as the counting of votes from 18 June constitutional referendum gets underway. Results are expected this week.

The African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia did not recover from a diplomatic row with Poland last Friday (16 June) after a delegation of guards and the...