With mixed reviews at home, Kenyan political heavyweight Raila Odinga is a main contender as Africa's top diplomat. What does he bring to the table? What do people in Kenya think? What about the other ...

Discover the untold story of Eritrean women who shattered gender norms and took up arms in their country’s 30-year struggle for independence.

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country's instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; failure to manage its ...

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to become the world's first country to recognise the self-declared republic.

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France would ...

The handover of the Kossei base, the French army's last such facility in the central African country, follows Chad's surprise breaking off of military cooperation with its former colonial ruler in ...