Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has reached an agreement with the IMF on a four-year US$3.4 billion loan – part of a $10.7bn financing programme from the Fund...

There was no mistaking the icy chill when Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accused his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto of being a Rwandan stooge who had ‘mismanaged’ the peace...

Civil society groups are mobilising citizens to defy a ban on political protests and take part in a three-day protest starting on 30 July to demand the release...

An Africa credit rating agency will start work in 2025, a senior African Union official has told reporters.

President William Ruto’s decision last week to bring back six of the senior ministers he had fired, particularly Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, who many hold as culpable...

The decision by the Ugandan state to seal off the headquarters of Bobi Wine’s National Unity Party (NUP) on 22 July, ahead of a major planned anti-corruption demonstration,...

South Africa and other African states need to move away quickly from their high carbon emitting economic models, President Cyril Ramaphosa told a climate change conference in Pretoria...

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) –...