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Ethiopia's official creditors approved its one billion dollar Eurobond restructuring on 21 August, then objected to the clause inside it....

Fighting flared around Alamata in southern Tigray in early August and stopped within a day. The more consequential move came...

Kenya says 289 of its citizens were recruited into the Russian military and 69 are dead or missing. Enlisting abroad...

Congo's Ebola outbreak has become the second largest ever recorded and the fastest on record. The health workers running the...

Djibouti, Egypt, Somalia and the Comoros are founding members of a new Saudi-led maritime coalition guarding the Bab al-Mandab. The...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have begun formally leaving the International Criminal Court, calling it selective and politicised. The exit...

The EU has banned Sudanese gold to choke the money financing the war, and blocked the chemicals used to mine...

A DRC plan to raise a paramilitary force to guard its mines, backed by Washington and Abu Dhabi, shows how...

Tshisekedi's openness to a third term shows how prolonged conflict reshapes constitutional limits before any law changes. In the DRC,...

Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa has hardened into a continental diplomatic crisis. It exposes a country that draws value from...

Renewed drone strikes on Khartoum's airport show Sudan's war has become a contest over the systems that let a state...

Ghana's Fitch upgrade proves the balance sheet can heal before the supply chain does. Unpaid cocoa farmers and a debt-strained...

The WFP's July funding deadline turns Somalia's chronic hunger emergency into an acute test of whether an aid architecture built...

South Africa's GNU is governing under coalition conditions for the first time in 30 years. The country's institutions are holding,...

Zambia's cancellation of the RightsCon conference under geopolitical pressure exposes a quieter form of digital sovereignty than data centres and...

Militant advances in Mali and Russian-linked force withdrawals reveal how external security models fail to convert presence into lasting territorial...

Airtel Africa's delay of the Airtel Money IPO reveals how African fintech growth stories remain structurally dependent on global capital...

More Africans are voting than ever before. The systems governing what those votes can change are getting more sophisticated, and...

The sanctioning of former president Kabila exposes how Congo's mineral wealth and conflict are entangled in global supply chains demanding...

OPEC+'s production increase signals mask a deeper problem: structural constraints are outpacing coordination capacity, with severe downstream consequences for Africa.

A Nigerian treason trial carries two weights at once: what the accused did, and what the state intends by prosecuting...

Nigeria's NNPC-FAAC revenue dispute is no longer about accounting, it is about who controls the fiscal narrative that determines Nigeria's...

Western arsenals are depleting faster than they can be refilled, and the tungsten and tantalum that refill them route disproportionately...

Diezani Alison-Madueke denies bribery in a London court, but her trial exposes how Nigeria's petro-state years operated, and why the...

Madagascar's Gen Z uprising forced Rajoelina to dissolve his cabinet, but the blackout that lit the fuse was a governance...

Burna Boy fills arenas and Nollywood out-produces Hollywood, yet Africa keeps the smallest share of the value its culture generates....

Africa's innovation story in 2025 is about systems not gadgets, the regulatory rails, payment infrastructure, and compute access that determine...

Africa stands at a genuine energy inflection point. The question is not whether renewable energy arrives, it already is. The...

Nigeria's B'Odogwu customs platform at PTML port represents the most concrete test of whether digital systems can displace the discretionary...

AGOA survived to December 2026, but the temporary extension matters less than what it revealed. Washington's interest in Africa is...