The African Union convened in Ghana on Sunday to address issues related to African integration and to establish a unified stance before engaging with the G20 and UN. Mauritania's President and current African Union Chair, Mohamed Cheikh Ghazouani, urged for the acceleration of the ... Read More

Turkey is pushing for diplomatic and economic influence on the world stage -- not least in Africa, where it announced plans this week to search for oil and gas off Somalia. Over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two decades in power, Ankara ... Read More

Sudan's de facto leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, received an Iranian ambassador Sunday and sent his own to Tehran, the government said, cementing a rapprochement after an eight-year rupture. Sudan and Iran agreed last October to resume diplomatic relations, as ... Read More

After a rising chorus within his own party urged U.S. President Joe Biden to “pass the torch,” he did just that on Sunday, immediately becoming a single-term president and a lame-duck leader. Biden announced on social media that he was ending ... Read More

The United Arab Emirates has lifted a 21-month long visa ban on Nigerians. Nigeria’s information minister Mohammed Idris said Monday that the UAE’s decision to lift the ban that has been in place since October 2022 came after “mutually beneficial negotiations” ... Read More

Deniece Laurent-Mantey Members of a U.S. presidential advisory council have approved a student exchange deal between an American college and a Nigerian university as part of the council's effort to strengthen collaboration on education, health, entrepreneurship and development between Africa and ... Read More

The United States is encouraged by "incremental progress" on peace and reconciliation efforts in Ethiopia, 20 months after a cease-fire was implemented in the northern Tigray region, according to a senior U.S. official. In November 2022, Ethiopia’s government and leaders from ... Read More

President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday's presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country's long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power. Kagame's opponents ... Read More

Donald Trump has named US Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, further elevating the Ohio Republican who has adopted the former president’s populist agenda after years of pointed criticism of Trump. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous ... Read More

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ruled as inadmissible, three of the four grounds of a suit filed by the son of a deceased Ghanaian seeking to hold the country liable, for among other things, failure to investigate the disappearance ... Read More