Christian Jové Ehrhardt has been a key player in the Trump administration’s push to send migrants to African countries where they have no ties. His nomination as ambassador to Cameroon puts that recor...

Cuts to higher education risk leaving America behind in the global race for influence on the continent. Africa programmes at colleges and universities across the US have lost tens of millions of dolla...

Kenya’s former Supreme Court Chief Justice takes next year’s election to the global stage in Washington and New York.

Trump has allowed the northern Ethiopia state of emergency to expire, which included sanctions on Eritrea, just as the conflict is heating up once again.

The Trump administration’s refusal to grant Sudan Armed Forces General Burhan a visa for New York’s General Assembly has antagonised US allies and the United Nations itself.

The leader of the self-declared state made new inroads in the quest for US recognition but failed to secure an audience with Trump himself.

The US Trump administration is hosting a G20 meeting on Ebola but is at odds with the continent on issues ranging from climate change to slavery

Weeks before stepping down, the UN boss is still reshuffling essential aides in charge of the continent.

Ukrainian drone operators are backing al-Qaeda’s Tuareg allies while Washington seeks to re-engage with the regime’s putschist regimes

Ukrainian drone operators are backing al-Qaeda’s Tuareg allies while Washington seeks to re-engage with the regime’s putschist regimes

Rising West African terror threats and jihadist reach in the Sahel belt have prompted bipartisan US lawmakers to unite, urging Congress to push for tighter ties with Mali – which has incited backlash ...

The US Senate hosts back-to-back nomination hearings for Trump’s ambassadorial picks across the continent. President Irro presents his case for US recognition of Somaliland, while the agenda for the t...

The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs has wrapped up a three-nation tour of the continent, from 30 August to 10 September, with stops in Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia.

America’s tech sector is on a global hiring spree for artificial intelligence engineers, but Africa isn’t on the agenda. Too often, tech companies are training Africans to use their products and platf...

Kenya President William Ruto and US Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia are both expected at this week’s US-East Africa business summit.

The House followed the Senate’s lead by extending the African Growth and Opportunity Act until near the end of Trump’s term.

Rival Sudanese factions are scrambling to win over Washington ahead of this month’s UN General Assembly.

Neighbouring powers are vying for influence as the unravelling AU peacekeeping mission further fractures Africa’s most fragile state.

US Trump envoy Massad Boulos goes after drone warfare that has given the Sudanese Armed Forces a battlefield edge against the Rapid Support Forces.

US Christian activists make the case for maintaining pressure on the Tinubu administration in Nigeria. Washington is set to announce ‘tougher’ sanctions on Iran, and in New York, the UN Security Counc...

US advocates are clamouring for Trump to renew his Country of Particular Concern designation, notwithstanding improved security cooperation.

Targeted in April by the US Treasury, which accuses him of backing CRA/M23 rebels, the former Congolese president has hired a lawyer in the US.

With US-Sahel joint intelligence services closing in, Kevin Rideout’s abductors were looking for a way out.

Trade lobbyists think the House is likely to adopt the two-year extension, as priorities turn to a full slate of election-year issues to address and just eight weeks in session before the end of the y...

The latest Afrobarometer survey of 38 countries reveals mixed perceptions of American economic and political influence even before the Trump administration’s aid cuts and visa bans.

The US Trump administration risks getting caught between an Egypt-Somalia-Eritrea axis on one side and an Ethiopia-Somaliland-Israel partnership on the other.

Fearing supply chain disruption and lost export markets, US trade associations demand a truce on political sanctions ahead of Agoa’s 2027 reauthorisation deadline.

The ‘America First’ push to replace Chinese-made fabrics presents a challenge and an opportunity for Africa’s textile industry.

The Congolese head of state is expected to preside over a high-level debate on the control and management of natural resources.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping also outperforms his American counterpart on an individual level.

The Trump administration has unleashed a crackdown, rounding up immigrants, especially its African diaspora. The Africa Report speaks to Africans in Minnesota as well as those living in the shadow of ...

Thirty-seven US missions across the continent are without an ambassador as Congress confirms Frank Garcia to be Assistant Secretary of State.

Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.

Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia is travelling to Nigeria, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire for his inaugural trip to the continent, as the United States seeks to rebuild ties with the Alliance of Sahe...

Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia is travelling to Nigeria, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire for his inaugural trip to the continent, as the United States seeks to rebuild ties with the Alliance of Sahe...

Fifteen years after independence, the world’s youngest nation is marking the anniversary with little to celebrate and dwindling international goodwill amid rising infighting between SPLM and SPLM-IO.

The world’s first trillionaire once bragged about feeding America’s aid apparatus ‘into the woodchipper’. Then the children started dying.

The US says it wants to be an honest broker in the Horn of Africa. Its actions tell a different story.

A coalition of organisations has filed a landmark lawsuit before the ECOWAS Court over Accra’s role in a secret US deportation deal that could set new legal limits on Africa’s migration cooperation wi...

Kinshasa will use its July UN Security Council presidency to advocate for an international legal framework as Kigali stands accused of pilfering its neighbours’ natural resources.

Kinshasa will use its July UN Security Council presidency to advocate for an international legal framework as Kigali stands accused of pilfering its neighbours’ natural resources.

One year after the Washington deal, escalating drone warfare and deep-seated mistrust have left the DRC-Rwanda peace process frozen in bureaucratic stasis.

It’s been 12 months since the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the DRC signed the 27 June 2025 peace accord to end their three-decade-old border conflict. On the ground, shifting front lines and escala...

The US Trump administration is following Europe’s lead in targeting a gold refinery accused of fuelling the conflict in eastern Congo.