Political elites and members of a separatist group who want a breakaway state in eastern Nigeria have pulled back from Ekpa, ...

The GSIM has announced a blockade of areas along the borders with Senegal and Mauritania. Its aim is to keep out essentials ...

Once sidelined, Chiwenga has rebuilt his faction of generals, party barons and old guard loyalists as the battle to succeed ...

Cuts to US development aid threaten funding for peacekeeping in West and Central Africa. The UN faces a $2.7bn shortfall.

Months after clashes between peacekeepers and the M23 rebels in Goma left 14 South African soldiers and dozens of rebels dead ...

A secret weapon for Tinubu? The opposition calls the surge of numbers in Osun State ‘implausible’, although sign-ups require ...

Egypt is fuming over the inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), as Addis fears Cairo’s growing presence ...

US-Africa trade rose 10% in July even as US exports fell for a second month in a row. Here are the countries which saw the ...

Africa’s richest man bets $2.5bn on Ethiopian fertiliser – a proving ground for his build-and-integrate playbook.

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has turned down an invitation to an informal dialogue on the DRC’s future hosted by ...

By reclaiming diamond-rich Akwatia, Baidoo boosts the ruling party’s majority and nudges it closer to the elusive two-thirds ...

Mamo Mihretu has resigned as governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia after two and a half years, saying he is leaving ...