The Muhoozi succession recasts Kampala’s regional policy

When Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and its Congolese allies, the M23 militia, captured Goma, the capital of Kivu-Nord province, over the weekend of 25-26 January, they exposed the...

Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies, a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments, many of them African, have been filed under the US State Department’s Foreign...

The crowds in Bamako, Ouagadougou and Niamey celebrating their countries’ break with the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on 29 January belie the...

This year should be the year of elections in the Central African Republic. Local elections, already rescheduled four times, are due in July, with a general election following...

Africa is set for faster growth and lower inflation this year – and the World Bank has upgraded growth projections for 2025 and 2026 – partly due to...

Many African leaders believe they can do business with new US President Donald Trump despite his previous lack of interest in the continent. A chorus of congratulatory messages...

With no sign of a thaw in the cold war between Algeria and Morocco, the Maghreb region will remain gripped by their stand-off and the Western Sahara dispute....

Two momentous decisions at the end of 2024 govern prospects for the regime in the year to come: the expulsion of France’s military and President Mahamat Déby Itno...

Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country’s cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening...

If there are prospects for an upturn in 2025, it’s only because security, morale and international coherence could hardly have been worse in 2024. Ethiopia fractured the international...

Daniel Chapo of the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) took the presidential oath on 15 January, but post-election protests have cast serious doubt over how effectively...

From key note addresses to international investor conferences, nation-boosting speeches to the UN General Assembly to grassroots rallies in the township, President Cyril Ramaphosa knows how to tailor...

The stand-off between General Assimi Goïta’s military regime and Canada’s Barrick Gold has reached a critical point with the mining conglomerate suspending work at the Loulou-Gounkoto complex after...

The last-minute cancellation of a press conference in Nairobi on 13 January by senior officials in the Rapid Support Forces suggests that its commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo...

Fights over new rules to cut corporate tax avoidance and illicit financial flows are intensifying weeks ahead of the first meeting of a new UN convention to set...

Two United States foreign policy veterans are taking the lead on Africa policy in Donald Trump’s second presidency. Joseph Foltz, the staff director on the House Foreign Affairs...

A severe bout of pneumonia put a hold on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plans to visit Morocco last week, but nothing it appears can halt...