A new investigation reveals how private contractors, drone operators and foreign advisers joined the campaign to defend the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from the M23 militia’s advancing fighte...

From fleeing Sierra Leone’s civil war to resisting marriage at 16, the first African winner of the €100,000 ($113,839) Basque Culinary World Prize has taken Fulani cuisine and indigenous ingredients g...

Le nord de l’Éthiopie s’embrase à nouveau. TPLF, Fano et OLA, jadis ennemis, ont formé une alliance inédite pour renverser le gouvernement d’Abiy Ahmed.

With US and Chinese forces stationed only kilometres apart, Djibouti faces growing pressure to stay out of the war while protecting the ports and trade links that underpin its economy.

From a bromance with Kenya’s William Ruto to a personal rapport with Macron, strategic ties with the Emiratis, and renewed ties with Europe, China and Türkiye, Abiy Ahmed has built an enviable network...

She became Mali’s youngest foreign minister at 35, only to see her government fall in a coup. Kamissa Camara talks power, putschs, and why she went searching for answers from the military officers who...

Blackouts are spilling onto the streets just months before the December election in Banjul, with reduced electricity supply from Senegal and Guinea leaving President Adama Barrow battling a crisis wit...

From Tanzania and Uganda to Zambia, South Sudan and Lesotho, some of the continent’s biggest political figures are up against the gravest of charges. Are states confronting real threats or reaching fo...

Deepening ties between the Yemeni rebels and Somali militants are putting renewed focus on earlier talks over explosive UAVs and specialised military training, a relationship analysts say could eventu...

Kimambi says Instagram and Facebook parent Meta bowed to pressure from Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government, wiping out accounts through which she reached millions.

Whether as scientists battling disease, entrepreneurs building Africa’s AI future, ministers reshaping tourism, athletes breaking records or financiers driving economic change, these are the Africans ...

From a $2m deepfake scam in Uganda to synthetic identities, automated phishing and ransomware that can rewrite its own code, artificial intelligence is changing the economics of cybercrime in Africa. ...

Dutch special forces reportedly came close twice in recent weeks to capturing fugitive cocaine boss Jos Leijdekkers off Sierra Leone’s coast. But the bigger question haunting Freetown is how one of Eu...

As a little girl riding the bus with her mother, Sazini Mojapelo often questioned why her family struggled while others drove past in cars. Today, the Zimbabwean-South African development leader and f...

Five years after the 2021 Ceuta crossing triggered a diplomatic rupture between Madrid and Rabat, 30 July’s deadly scenes in the tiny Spanish enclave thrust Morocco back to the centre of Europe’s migr...

Liberia President Joseph Boakai has fired senior airport, police and intelligence officials as the country’s biggest-ever cocaine investigation widens from foreign traffickers to alleged state complic...

The former Save the Children executive spent more than two decades pushing Britain to lead on global development from outside government. Now, as the country’s new minister for development and Africa,...

Kigali’s $27m (£20m) front-of-shirt deal with Aston Villa keeps its Premier League strategy alive. But as the spotlight on Rwanda’s meddling in Democratic Republic of Congo shines brighter, its effort...

Born in Monrovia and forced to flee Liberia’s civil war as a child, Miatta Fahnbulleh went from refugee to rising political star, earning the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s trust. Now, as energy se...

By targeting Russia’s refineries alongside its ports and grain export routes, Ukraine’s expanding drone campaign is disrupting diesel supplies and wheat shipments, exposing African economies to higher...

The former president of Guinea-Bissau has become the constant companion on Macky Sall’s bid for the UN’s top job, turning a decades-old mentor-protégé relationship into one of West Africa’s most strik...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says a two-term limit would strengthen Ethiopia’s democracy. But attention has quickly shifted to whether the National Dialogue is preparing the country for a presidential re...

From Uganda to Thailand, Laos and Malaysia, Dubai to Egypt, Lithuania to Germany, and on to Portugal, Slovakia and Denmark, Akot Sonny Garang’s career has been shaped by visa denials, missed flights, ...

The leading striker for the US in the World Cup, Folarin Balogun, became a citizen after his Nigerian mother gave birth while visiting New York. But as Trump fought to overturn the ‘injustice’ of the ...

Nearly a decade after the exposure of state capture ended his presidency, Jacob Zuma’s reunion in India with Ajay Gupta of the Gupta family at the heart of the corruption scandal has dragged South Afr...

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...

From Washington to Moscow and Beijing to Tel Aviv, Cairo has mastered the art of being everyone’s partner and no one’s pawn.

Rejected by publishers and forced to self-publish, Sue Nyathi never imagined The Polygamist would become a Netflix hit. 14 years later, she’s watching her novel’s television adaptation become a global...

As Hargeisa deepens ties with Tel Aviv and celebrates its biggest diplomatic breakthrough in 35 years, threats from the Houthis, condemnation from Hamas and growing opposition across the Muslim world ...

Ethiopia’s top officials say old adversaries are finding common cause in a loose anti-government alliance stretching from Tigray to Eritrea. Its alleged members deny it exists. So, is Tsimdo an emergi...

Reports of forced conscription, a controversial mobilisation law and allegations of military build-up have heightened fears that northern Ethiopia could be edging towards renewed conflict, drawing Pre...

From Brazzaville to Nairobi: a Congolese rapper forced from his homeland and a Kenyan activist repeatedly arrested at home are fighting the same battle against power. Their stories reveal why a new ge...

The controversy over the Trump administration’s proposed Ebola hub in Kenya for American citizens has reignited questions about the price of African cooperation and how far Washington is willing to go...

Tensions are rising as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and fired prime minister Ousmane Sonko compete for control of the PASTEF movement and the political future of Senegal.

Kampala is urging tourists to keep coming despite a US ‘Do Not Travel’ warning, while the WHO estimates that Ebola cases across the DRC and Uganda may already exceed 600.

Addis Ababa’s fierce rebuttal to Khartoum’s drone attack allegations has intensified questions over whether Ethiopia is still merely a neighbour watching Sudan’s war or is now becoming one of its acti...

What began as one of Africa’s most celebrated political alliances is gradually turning into a battle between President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko over power, succession and...

Abu Dhabi says it is taking action against illegal arms suppliers linked to Port Sudan, but analysts argue the timing points to a broader effort to redirect attention from accusations surrounding the ...

Parliamentary chief whip claims the government of Samia Suluhu Hassan had ‘no hand’ in the disappearance of ambassador Humphrey Polepole, while critics say a presidential inquiry confirming 518 deaths...

Allegations of covert RSF support from an Ethiopian base are chipping away at Addis Ababa’s carefully held neutrality in a war now driving the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis.

A divided Africa, stronger Latin American rivals and the power politics of the UN Security Council’s five veto powers – the US, China, Russia, the UK and France – have not yet closed off his path, but...

A disputed AFCON decision has spilled into politics, placing CAF boss Patrice Motsepe under pressure at home while reviving Pretoria’s long-running tensions with Morocco over Western Sahara.

A short flare-up, a grinding two-month confrontation or a doomsday escalation – each possible path of the Iran war carries very different risks for Africa’s economy and diplomacy.

A new investigation alleges pollution, illness and displacement around one of the world’s largest cobalt operations, raising fresh questions about the human cost of the electric vehicle boom.

Critics say the move to shut out students from the two African countries reflects mounting political pressure to tighten immigration controls rather than a coherent visa strategy.

Rising liquefied natural gas costs and shipping risks in the Gulf could push up electricity prices for gas-dependent African power systems.

What Washington calls a reset on aid, some African governments and activists see as new strings attached, from mining interests to control over health data.

A pre-dawn strike in Rubaya that killed one of M23’s most visible commanders has jolted an already fragile truce. Kinshasa presents it as a decisive blow. The rebels denounce it as betrayal. Any chanc...

As evidence mounts of genocide in El Fasher, disclosures that a key figure in the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group accused of orchestrating the atrocities, holds a Kenyan passport and a UA...