The eleventh-hour cancellation of peace talks between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda by the Angolan government mediating the talks, means that the deadlock over the Kivu war will continue into...

The collapse of Bashar al Assad’s dictatorship in Syria could have major implications for Russia, whose naval base in Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea coast provided logistical support...

The big announcement of Joe Biden’s first and last United States presidential visit to Africa instead underscored Washington’s severely diminished influence on the continent.

The difficulties facing the Kenya-led police peacekeeping effort tackling gang warfare in Haiti continue to mount amid reports that around 20 of the 400 Kenyan police officers have...

At the East African Community heads of state summit on 30 November, Kenyan President William Ruto told journalists that he and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni had been asked...

Chad’s decision to end its military cooperation deal with France is another major blow to France which had been actively courting President Mahamat Idriss Déby aka ‘Kaka’ to...

Namibia is set to elect its first female head of state but also looks likely to join Mozambique in having the legitimacy of its general elections dismissed as...

After weeks of denial by the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) that there were serious problems with its claimed victory in the 9 October election,...

After repeated delays, United States President Joe Biden’s valedictory visit to Angola has been rescheduled for 2 December. He is to be welcomed at Lobito port by Angolan...

After an underwhelming 10 days in Azerbaijan, with criticism of the host country’s organisation of the talks and of the political commitment from most of the summit’s major...