From Nairobi to Accra, leaders of countries facing debt strains and public wrath over rising food and fuel prices have turned to the IMF as a last-ditch lender - but say they get little say in the policymaking that ultimately ... Read More

 South Africa's trade minister said his country is pursuing more robust trade and investment ties within the continent and with China - its biggest trade partner - as the global trade environment becomes increasingly fraught. Parks Tau said that while he ... Read More

Kithure Kindiki Kenya will swear in Kithure Kindiki as the country's new deputy president on Friday, after a court lifted orders barring his inauguration, following weeks of legal challenges by his predecessor, who was impeached by parliament last month. The Senate voted ... Read More

With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that will decide the extent to which the new president will be able to implement his agenda. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been ... Read More

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud looks on during a meeting at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit 2022 in Washington, Dec. 13, 2022. Political leaders in Somalia agreed Wednesday on a framework for the country’s first national one-person, one-vote elections, a government statement ... Read More

Guinean authorities dissolved dozens of political parties and placed two major opposition parties under observation late Monday, as the transitional government has yet to announce a date for elections. The West African country has been ruled by a military regime since soldiers ousted ... Read More

Morocco's King Mohammed VI welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco on Monday, kicking off a state visit with a series of bilateral agreements, including major investments in renewable energy and transportation. Macron's trip to Morocco — his first in six ... Read More

Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the United Nations said. It was the group's latest attack against ... Read More

As the globe marks World Polio day, Africa has recorded 134 new polio cases in at least seven countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. The regional director of the WHO for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, stated that the circulating variant of ... Read More

Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed who is attending his first BRIC summit as a member nation met Russian president Vladimir Putin for a bilateral meeting on Wednesday (Oct. 23). The Russian leader called Ethiopia's integration into the group an 'important step', ... Read More