Politics

Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region accused the federal government of launching a military offensive on Saturday, reigniting fears of a...

Macky Sall’s bid to succeed United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres could be in trouble after the Security Council’s first informal...

Detained prominent Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who collapsed while in court on Wednesday, is unconscious ​and has been admitted to an...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Constitutional Court has approved a controversial referendum law that critics say could pave the way...

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea signed an agreement on Tuesday ending a decades-long dispute over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich...

Ugandan diplomat ​Olara Otunnu has joined the contest to become the next secretary-general of ‌the United Nations, the seventh contender...

Gabon's main opposition leader, Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, has been in jail for more than three months after the...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a ​new political party, formalising his ‌break with former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko...

Ethiopia's opposition People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) has accused the federal government of pushing the northern Tigray region towards a new...

Cameroon's ruling party called a rare meeting of senior leaders on Wednesday as criticism mounted over the continued absence of...