The incoming US Donald Trump administration is beginning to staff up its Africa team with the selection of a longtime ...

The feud between the two powerful men, involving First Bank and General Hydrocarbons Limited, has become a media spectacle in ...

Maina Njenga’s return to Mt Kenya politics is stirring up debate: Could he be the key to securing President Ruto’s foothold ...

Neighbours in the Maghreb are competing with projects and high-profile announcements aimed at countries in the Sahel. While ...

Security experts say the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militant group is capitalising on issues such as severe governance ...

Heading towards becoming a billion-dollar industry by 2030, a patchwork of regulation is not helping gamblers make good ...

The chief operating officer of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) tells The Africa Report his country will ‘buck the ...

South Africa is strengthening its commitment to the International Criminal Court after almost withdrawing from it eight years ...

Given Stephen Mutamba’s history of undermining democracy in Zimbabwe, there is no doubt the country’s new police boss will crack down on critics who oppose the ruling party’s plans to extend President ...

In Cameroon, the taboo of ‘Life After Biya’ has been broken. We look at the most powerful political forces in the country. In an unprecedented way, excitement, hope and fear about the post-Biya era ...

The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim Brotherhood.

Venancio Mondlane, who left Mozambique after his lawyer was gunned down in October, has led deadly protests against election results that he says were rigged in favour of the ruling Frelimo party in ...