Governance
France is weighing reciprocal diplomatic sanctions after Burkina Faso moved to sever its remaining diplomatic relations with France, escalating one of the most significant diplomatic disputes in West Africa this year.
Migration
Ghana’s evacuation exercise for citizens affected by xenophobic violence in South Africa has come to an end. Coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with South African authorities and diplomatic missions
Governance
For many communities across northern Nigeria, insecurity is no longer an occasional disruption. It has become part of daily life. Recurring attacks by armed groups, mass kidnappings, and deadly violence have continued to affect several states, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes...
Governance
Democracy is often judged by how elections are conducted. But in many African countries today, the deeper test is no longer about how leaders come into power. It is about what happens when they are challenged by the very institutions meant to regulate that power...
Governance
The African Union Commission concluded a high-level benchmarking mission focused on Zimbabwe’s Heritage-Based Education 5.0 Model, with the goal of exploring how similar reforms can be adapted and localized across other African education systems.
Governance
Africa’s ballot box is losing its liberatory power, morphing into a tool for regime survival. From Ethiopia’s exclusionary June 2026 polls to Guinea’s junta-led “transition,” elections are increasingly engineered to entrench elites. The cost is capital flight, fractured trust, and democratic erosion
Governance
The executive Cabinet of South Africa has approved the submission of a statutory bill aimed at repealing 149 colonial and apartheid-era justice laws, marking a significant step toward restructuring parts of the country’s legal system.
Governance
Senegalese politics is now at the center of one of the continent’s most closely watched leadership disputes. The fallout between President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has transformed what was once viewed as a united reform movement into a test of political cohesion ...
Governance
In recent times, the map of African migration has significantly changed and people moving abroad is no longer just about buying a ticket to London, or New York. These traditional routes are practically restricted, young Africans are now moving along new paths to other powerhouse African countries.
Governance
African and European leaders gathered in Nairobi under the Africa Forward framework to discuss a reset of cooperation models between both regions, with governance reform emerging as a central theme throughout the summit.
Business
The AfCFTA-Rendeavour partnership moves Africa's continental trade ambitions off paper and into bricks, roads, and economic zones, but the questions of who benefits, who decides, and who bears the risk remain very much open.
Governance
Renewed xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa have once again placed migrants protection and regional stability at the centre of continental discussions, prompting several African governments to issue warnings and advisories to their citizens living in or travelling to the country.