With Cameroon heading into the presidential election in four months, Paul Biya leans on a loyal inner circle of military and civilian security chiefs, the powerbrokers who shield both the state and ...

African academic scholars at home and abroad are playing significant roles in guiding and influencing public policy, stimulating intellectual discussions and changing lives across the world, through ...

As the US pushes for renewed Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks, Pretoria finds itself back in the thick of the preparations. President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ahead ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu and his once-trusted political ally, Rauf Aregbesola, have crossed the Rubicon. In a dramatic twist unthinkable just a few years ago, Aregbesola — who managed Tinubu’s ...

A year after launching operations off the coast of Dakar, Woodside Energy is pumping oil from the Sangomar field at full capacity. The offshore platform – named Léopold Sédar Senghor and located 100km ...

Mali’s junta is pressuring gold and lithium miners to comply with new laws. Our infographics show how producers are gradually falling into line.

Until January of 2020, when Sudan opened up the gold market to raise revenue, the central bank in Khartoum was the only entity allowed to buy and export gold, and it set up local trading centres.

Nearly two months after militia fighters briefly seized control of several cities across Amhara, the fate of the region hangs in the balance.

Criminals in East Africa are exploiting the multiple conflicts in the north-east of the DRC to allow the trafficking of its protected hardwoods. The key economies in the East African Community – Kenya ...

Is the UN plagued by race-based discrimination? A growing number of Africans are calling out the international institution for its toxic internal culture.

The Red Sea is governed by an alphabet soup of international agreements and peppered with dozens of strategic ports and military bases. To help you navigate, here is a non-exhaustive list of the ...

The Oromo Liberation Front is not a terrorist organisation, but one that has been squeezed out of options.