Protests in Britain by Extinction Rebellion this year have seen two constant features: confrontations with police, and First Nation activists from Central and South America calling...

Efforts to derail Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's reform agenda and oust the civilian-dominated council of ministers have intensified with a military-backed protest in Khartoum on ...

Relations between Mogadishu and Nairobi are set to plunge still lower in the wake of the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 12 October which agreed with most of ...

A month after a second round of parliamentary elections confirmed the Prosperity Party's landslide victory in June, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a new offensive against t...

Governments around the world could get over $150bn in extra tax revenues a year under a new accord signed at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on 8...

The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank open on 11 October against a backdrop of political rows in both institutions. Those fights, touching on policy...

The ruling by the European Court of Justice confirming its refusal to extend the EU's trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco to cover the Western Sahara marks another setback ...

France's decision to halve the number of visas available to Moroccans and Algerians and reduce by a third those for Tunisians has triggered a backlash and has re-energised the migr...

The leak of documents known as the Pandora Papers and published on 3 October showed that 35 current and former heads of state, three in Africa, along with over 330 public officials...

By naming Najla Bouden Romdhane as Tunisia's first female prime minister on 29 September, President Kaïs Saïed has briefly changed the political conversation but disclosed little ...