Political allies President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga have to rethink their political strategy after the High Court in Nairobi threw out their plan...

Having spent years admiring the rise and sustained dominance of Safaricom's mobile money service M-Pesa in Kenya, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government may find itself competing w...

Organisers of the '#FixTheCountry' group pushed ahead with localised protests and Twitter campaigns after the police obtained a restraining order from the High Court barring a mass...

The United States support for a lifting of patents on Covid-19 vaccines in coming negotiations at the World Trade Organization is a big win for African campaigners and could offer ...

Government officials have told Africa Confidential that there will be no further delays to the polls scheduled for 5 June, and that campaigning has started in earnest. They add tha...

The threat of the World Bank, the European Union and the United States pulling the plug on funding appears to have forced President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' to backtrack ...

Strains in relations between Kenya and Tanzania date back decades to stated ideological differences over capitalism and socialism, to Kenya's bigger economy, and down to the nation...

From 8-10 May, the 86-member National Executive Committee of the African National Congress has the chance to resolve the power-struggle that has gnawed away at its leadership for t...

It was meant to be an alarm call of the loudest kind. On 27 April, Niger State governor Abubakar Sani Bello announced that insurgent fighters with Boko Haram had hoisted their blac...

When the last meeting of the ANC's National Executive Committee gave Secretary General Ace Magashule 30 days to consult with party elders and step aside voluntarily, few thought he...