Yoweri Museveni faces off against musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine, along with six other contenders in January’s all-male ...

As global momentum builds for Palestinian recognition, Asmara and Yaoundé remain the lone African holdouts, bound to Israel ...

As doctors and nurses flee Ghana and patients head abroad, the continent is haemorrhaging billions and squandering trust in ...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia support the Sudanese Armed Forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s leader, while the ...

For decades, the term Françafrique has described a shadow system that bound Paris to African strongmen through oil, arms, ...

In a new documentary, nine Russian mercenaries tear into Mali’s army – calling the soldiers ‘cowards’ and ‘incompetent’ – ...

Malawi’s incoming President Peter Mutharika is a low-key 85-year-old former Washington law professor whose 2014-2020 term is ...

Kenya scrapped a US-funded highway after Chinese concerns over rail revenues, highlighting Beijing’s influence and Ruto’s ...

Roughly a third of the cocaine consumed in Europe is thought to transit through West Africa, where Balkan crime syndicates ...

Caught between their next-door neighbour’s oil boom and its own string of dry wells, The Gambia, one of Africa’s smallest nations, has seen oil become as much about politics and perception as geology.

Côte d’Ivoire remains the world’s top producer of cocoa beans, but high prices have exposed the weakness of its model, as ...

As he prepares for the upcoming presidential election, Cameroon’s head of state is on a short stay in Switzerland. He ...