Politics

When South Sudan gained independence in July 2011, the world's youngest nation was celebrated as a beacon of hope in...

The nation once called the breadbasket of the Nile now gnaws at its own bones. Markets lie hollow, harvests rot...

Czech nationalism has reclaimed centre stage in Prague, setting up a more transactional relationship with Brussels without announcing a rupture....

The evening air over Leqliaa was thick as argan oil, slow, fragrant, and waiting for heat. Teenagers in worn sneakers...

A silent revolution is unfolding in the Sahel. In a region long cast as the periphery of geopolitical theatre, dogged...

African conflicts rage from Biafra to the Sahel, from the Horn of Africa to the forests of the Congo, and...

While our previous analysis examined the domestic implications of Traoré’s rule, this companion piece explores the broader geopolitical forces that...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré has emerged as a viral Pan-African icon. Yet behind the imagery lies a deteriorating state, escalating violence,...

The earth beneath Goma remembers. It remembers miners who descend into narrow shafts in search of cobalt that powers cars...

Six years after Félix Tshisekedi’s improbable rise to the presidency, the Democratic Republic of Congo stands at a precarious intersection....

Nigeria continues to wander through the thickets of economic struggle, its path obscured like a hunter in dense bush armed...

The Nigerian Senate is facing renewed scrutiny after allegations emerged that the 2024 federal budget was inflated by over N3.7...

African politics today wrestles with an old shadow wearing a new cloak: gerontocracy, a system where the walking sticks of...

Across Africa, long serving leaders manipulate constitutions and institutions to remain in power fueling corruption, stifling growth, and testing democratic...