The Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah explains his new novel, Theft, the themes of exile and powerlessness that run through ...

The South African president is fighting to keep the global forum intact as the US boycott threatens to derail international ...

Tanzanian economist Frannie Léautier, a former VP at the AfDB and World Bank, backs Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah for the top ...

Zimbabwe’s Mutapa Investment Fund, exempted from any form of scrutiny by parliament, has been turned into a financier of ...

The postponement of South Africa’s national budget vote was as much about keeping the national coalition together as it was ...

Evidence in the high-profile case has revealed a vast drug trafficking network with alleged military complicity.

With a penetration rate of nearly 30%, the continent represents a rapidly growing market where competition is as fierce as ...

The rapid decline of the party that took Nigeria’s political scene by storm comes amid the exit of allies and lieutenants, ...

Could deteriorating diplomatic ties between France and the Sahel nations have consequences for the common currency used by ...

Concern grows about a regional war as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance into Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South ...

Writing in Al Jazeera on Monday, Teshome, Ethiopia’s president from 2013 to 2018, who is considered a close ally of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, accused Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki of ...

Rebels from the M23, backed by the Rwandan army, continue to advance in South Kivu drawing closer to the Burundian border, where troops sent by President Évariste Ndayishimiye have gradually retreated ...