Ivorians have been banned from contesting decisions of the Constitutional Court. Will supporters of rejected presidential candidates Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam still march on 4 October?

Drug trafficking through West Africa to Europe is deepening addiction and straining public resources in some of the world’s poorest countries.

BFA has completed the largest initial public offering (IPO) yet on Luanda ’s young stock exchange, raising Kz220.9bn (about $239m) and widening the lender’s shareholder base as the government tries to ...

Ethiopia, a hydropower giant, and Kenya, a leader in geothermal generation, are racing for East Africa energy supply dominance as the two nations ramp up investment in nuclear power, a growing ...

In a populist turn ahead of 29 October elections, President Samia says Rungwe estate will be repossessed, as government accuses private operators of failing to develop farms and factories. Tanzania ...

Can a fertiliser mega-project and a Chinese-built refinery shift Ethiopia’s energy and industry from import dependence to self-supply? Ethiopia has launched a cluster of large industrial schemes in ...

On 1 October the DRC and Rwanda were due to begin implementing the security chapter of the deal struck in Washington. Distrust persists on both sides and obstacles are piling up. Will the facts on the ...

The former president’s son has been named in a financial-intelligence report – that has not been made public – and failed to attend a police interview.

In May, Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire say they were abducted and tortured by security forces in Tanzania. There was little reaction from their respective ...

Ghana’s US deportee deal stirs fears of ECOWAS discord, testing Accra’s balance between regional unity and global diplomacy.

The Washington-based Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) has announced the island country of Mauritius as the host of next year’s US-Africa Business Summit, bringing the American private sector’s ...

A coalition of armed movements in Sudan has appointed a ‘civilian government’, but will this legitimise Hemeti and his Rapid Support Forces?