President Kaïs Saïed has not announced his intention to stand but the field of candidates ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 6 October is quickly thinning out.

Morocco plans to acquire a spy satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in a US$1 billion deal, in the latest move as part of its defence deal with...

The fragility of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) was evident at a leaders’ summit in Niamey where the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) –...

The government will cut its budget by 177 billion shillings (US$1.4bn) over the next 12 months and borrow the rest of the KSh346bn ($2.7bn) in tax revenue that...

The latest international attempts – this time by Egypt – to broker peace talks between the two sides in the civil war are already struggling. Cairo, which backs...

The statement by Congo-Kinshasa’s state-owned miner Gécamines that it will oppose the sale of Trafigura Group-backed miner Chemaf Resources Ltd. to China’s Norin Mining Ltd. puts it on...

Turkey mediated the first round of talks between Somalia and Ethiopia’s foreign ministers on Monday in the first international attempt to ease diplomatic tensions between the two Horn...

Tanzania’s National Food Reserve Agency has agreed to sell 650,000 tonnes of corn to Zambia over the next eight months as Lusaka counts the costs of the drought...

At least five people have been shot, including a journalist, amid mass protests around parliament in Nairobi in what is turning into a rapidly escalating crisis for President...

This week’s trip to Botswana by Chair of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr, is the latest in a series of recent US government...