Until recently, many in Kenya may not have predicted the rapid rise of Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna to the top of national politics.

Tigray People’s Liberation Front seizes control of airports, targets government positions in Afar and Amhara regions.

Academics from around the world have mobilised to campaign against the Zambian government's decision to cancel the passport of Sishuwa Sishuwa, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Stelle...

Just as Hamburg's commercial crisis was the result of weather, foul weather also drove a meaningful rescue off course with the sinking of HMS Lutine.

The continent’s banks are signing up for China’s Swift alternative, smoothing transactions and potentially avoiding sanctions.

Rights groups say this as part of a pattern of targeting news outlets - the government has not commented.

When Iraq gained independence in 1932, its sovereignty remained constrained by Britain. The monarchy responded by building a powerful military that soon turned its guns on the country’s own people.

How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war

Exclusive: More than 60 accounts on X have been made unavailable in Saudi Arabia, after similar action on Snapchat and Facebook

The academic and farmer was the first and only white man to lead an African democracy

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) – Tanzania is considering a Eurobond sale to help cover its external borrowing needs, estimated at around $1 billion, Finance Minister Khamis Mussa Omar said on Thursday. Spe...

The president’s costly election strategy is unnerving both the ruling party and its opponents

The Borg: Undefeated (for now)

Tadej Pogacar’s dominance has drawn admiration and criticism, with some fearing the Tour de France is losing its competitive edge

Le Togo s’apprête, une nouvelle fois, à redéfinir la mesure de son économie. En présidant, le mardi 30 juin à Lomé, la treizième session ordinaire du...

Assault on El Obeid threatens repeat of bloodbath that followed Rapid Support Forces’ capture of El Fasher last year

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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The UK’s next PM faces some hard decisions. Bringing the failing utility into state ownership isn’t one of them

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to ...

Sulaf will be the opening act on Tinariwen's European tour this April and May.

The Russian tsar's quest to westernise his country took inspiration from Swedish institutions while dismissing the notion of a literate civil society that animated and sustained them.

Standing up for international law should not alienate more cautious EU allies, says foreign minister José Manuel Albares

Sky News Arabia to retain name in brand licensing deal after criticism of its coverage of atrocities in Sudan

Across much of sub-Saharan Africa, growth is arriving without the factory boom that shaped earlier development miracles. Instead, workers are leaving farms for non-tradable consumer services. This col...

The severity of financial crises is exacerbated by the lack of international liquidity or the absence of a global lender of last resort. This was evident during the Long Depression (1873-1896), the Gr...

Chad jails eight opposition leaders for eight years as Supreme Court dissolves anti-Deby coalition

He wanted to be a writer, but believes he’ll get his message across more easily through music.

Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamusekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo

Indexing methodology will provide a comfortable cushion for pre-IPO shareholders

Conflict has crushed Gulf markets and pushed up air freight and shipping costs

A look at how recent consumer spending growth has been driven by high-income households, with consumption exhibiting a K-shaped economy since 2023.