Months after news of a possible political and economic alliance broke, three West African junta-led states—Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—have announced their withdrawal from the regional...
Temesgen Tiruneh, the head of Ethiopia’s espionage agency, will take over as deputy prime minister from Demeke Mekonnen, who has served in that role for more...
The Kenyan government’s push to lead a multinational mission deployed to assist the Haitian National Police in its fight against gangs will be confronted with territorial...
Political parties in Zambia have been tasked by the Centre for Inter-party Dialogue (ZCID) to uphold the law and safeguard infrastructure during by-elections. In a statement...
The presidency of Namibia has announced that President Hage Geingob has left the country to receive cancer treatment in the United States. The 82-year-old head of...
South Africa’s 84-page petition about Israel’s inability to supply the Gaza Strip with basic necessities like food, water, medicine, fuel, shelter, other humanitarian aid, and other...
Ahead of the general election that is scheduled for next year, Tanzania’s political opposition staged its first significant demonstration in years on Wednesday. In addition to easing other limitations on the media and opposition parties, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has overturned the ban on the majority of political gatherings, which her predecessor, John Magufuli, had put in place in 2016....
The president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has declared that his country would not tolerate any threat against Somalia, following Ethiopia’s announcement that it would take...
A final list of 20 candidates for Senegal’s February presidential election has been released by the constitutional council, with controversial opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, missing. Karim...
Sierra Leone’s ex-president, Ernest Bai Koroma, left the West African country by plane and flew to Nigeria on Friday after a court allowed him to travel...