Spurning talks, Burhan returns to a wrecked palace and capital

After expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from Khartoum in late March, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is now focusing on the...

Adding to the mixed messages over who is setting economic, monetary and security policy, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) John Mushayavanhu announced on 11...

The 31 March protest – in the form of sporadic demonstrations across the country and a national stayaway – unleashed a fresh wave of anger against President Emmerson...

In the latest twist in the power struggle to control Rivers State, the two leading protagonists – Governor Siminilayi Fubara and his predecessor Nyesom Wike – both appear...

By releasing 4,800 political prisoners and calling off the riot police, Frelimo has admitted defeat, but it can’t negotiate a national unity government. After six months of post-electoral...

The choice of the United States’s new Ambassador to Pretoria – Leo Brent Bozell III – dispels any notion that President Donald J Trump’s administration might dial down...

A United States court has awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas US$18 million in damages, including $8m in punitive damages, after ruling that populist former New Patriotic...

The end of Accra’s debt default tunnel is nigh. After signing a memorandum of understanding with the official creditor committee, Ghana is forecast to end the restructuring of...

Alusine Kanneh, Sierra Leone’s Chief Immigration Officer, has been dismissed as questions about his relationship with notorious cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers have mounted and evidence of past dishonesty...

Edwin Sifuna, Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Senator for Nairobi County, has cut a frustrated figure during the political manoeuvring that followed last June’s...

With trade unionist Jean-Rémy Yama disqualified from the 12 April first presidential ballot due to his inability to produce his father’s birth certificate, defeat for Brice Clotaire Oligui...

Chaos surrounds the fate of South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, whose arrest threatens to reignite war. On 26 March, his Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO)...

A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories...

Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...