So far Kaïs Saïed's year of entrenching power in the presidency and the whittling away of the rights of parliament and other centres of oversight and scrutiny has been un...

Allegations of improper relations between the firm printing the ballot papers for the general elections and Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetangula, a prominent ally of Deputy President ...

Just weeks after his election, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is confronted with a national and regional food supply crisis as his opponents in Al Shabaab try to capitalise on the...

A US$600 billion package of infrastructure funding from the European Union and the United States emerged as the headline deal for Africa and other developing regions at the G7 indu...

Baroness Patricia Scotland won re-election as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth in a tight contest and bad-tempered finale to its summit in Kigali between 20 and 26 June, t...

Every Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) prompts its own soul-searching, together with confident predictions that its 54 members will agree that this colonial-based o...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky got his audience with African leaders on 20 June, some four months after Moscow's invasion of his country.

The latest wave of power cuts – or 'load-shedding' as the government prefers to call them – could be a foretaste of a wider electricity crisis over the next four years,...

The European Court of Justice's rejection of an appeal against sanctions by Kremlin favourite Yevgeny Prigozhin, who controls private military contractor the Wagner Group, will com...

As Madrid rebuilds its diplomatic relations with Morocco in the wake of its latest row over Western Sahara, it is eroding its long-nurtured ties with Algiers. This has been reinfor...