Why has Donald Trump seized on Western Sahara – a file Washington long kept at arm’s length? The US catch-up fits a scheme ...

Violence erupts in Zimbabwe as ‘security elements’ target activists and political leaders opposing the plot to extend ...

Johannesburg hosts the G20’s business summit as a rare bout of economic optimism collides with US political snubs, stubborn ...

Beneath its democratic veneer, a surge in traditional, political and land-based disputes is reshaping Ghana’s internal security and testing its reputation for stability. These questions unpack the ...

From data centres and language models to new alliances with Big Tech, Africa’s telecoms groups are scrambling to turn the promise of artificial intelligence into usable products.

Meanwhile, in Johannesburg, the Trump administration’s decision to boycott next weekend’s first-ever G20 summit on African ...

Meeting in Doha on 15 November, Congolese authorities and the rebels agreed on a set of guiding principles. The core issues ...

More than a decade after he was bundled in shackles off a plane from Tanzania, Jamil Mukulu is finally facing a full trial in ...

Guinness Nigeria, majority-owned by Singapore-based Tolaram, is targeting inroads into the northern part of Africa’s most ...

A Makinde-backed faction expels the ex-Rivers governor as Wike loyalists call a rival convention, pushing the once-dominant ...

Attacks by Al-Shabaab and the Houthis in the Red Sea, war in Sudan, Ethiopia’s ambitions … amid a turbulent neighbourhood, ...

Fikile Mbalula has built a close network of allies and confidants who help keep his political engine running, even as he ...