Both the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigrayan forces are hardening their positions as the conflict enters what the International Crisis Group describes as a 'dangerous new...

As the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across Africa, the continent has become the most vulnerable region hit by the more transmissible Delta variant of the disease d...

Israel's success in winning observer status at the African Union reflects relentless lobbying by ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Israel's diplomatic opening with...

The collapse of Kenya's National Super Alliance, the opposition coalition that lost the 2017 election, looks certain after three of the party leaders involved – Amani Nation...

Last week, a new batch of 133 asylum-seekers intending to travel to Europe from Libya landed in Rwanda to have their claims processed. A further 60 have since joined them this week...

The first meeting in over a decade between President Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo next Tuesday (27 July) is billed as symbolising long-delayed national reco...

President Cyril Ramaphosa managed to get through his national TV address on Friday (16 July) condemning the people behind this 'attempted insurrection' without once mentioning the ...

Deputy President William Ruto notched up another success in his bid to win next August's presidential election after his personal political vehicle, the United Democratic Alliance,...

While case numbers and deaths from Covid-19 continue to rise across Africa, the devastating costs of the travel restrictions that have been imposed on visitors as a consequence con...

Reports emerging from parallel investigations in Britain, Switzerland, and the United States point to the operation of an elite network which has laundered cash and paid over US$36...