[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The Trump administration is prepared to use "all diplomatic and economic tools" at its disposal to advance the cause of peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos said during an online b...

[allAfrica] Tidjane Thiam, the former head of Credit Suisse, is set to run for president in Côte d'Ivoire's upcoming election, his party has announced. Thiam ran unopposed in the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast's primary after his only rival, fo...

[Crisis Group] London -- Despite tamped-down expectations, Tuesday's Sudan conference in London was a jarring reality check. Like other forums before it that tried to gin up a more unified effort to address Sudan's two-year-old civil war, the confere...

[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, has issued a strong statement against the Acting Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Amb. Sivuyile Thandikhaya Bam, accused him of sympath...

[New Times] So far, 800 families living in high-risk areas have been relocated and are now being provided with shelter.

Lecturers from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, embarked on a strike on Thursday with a street demonstration outside the institution to demand better salaries and working conditions.

How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left black Zimbabweans in poverty.

South Sudan's opposition accused government forces of attacking one of its military positions near the capital on Tuesday as a fragile power-sharing agreement unravelled further.

Zimbabwe's indefinite national shutdown due to start after the Easter weekend - called for by war veterans leader Blessed Geza - failed to take off on Tuesday.

African nations have enjoyed duty-free access to the US market for over two decades under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), up for renewal in September. How prepared are they should Trump refuse to sign it?

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The Trump administration is prepared to use "all diplomatic and economic tools" at its disposal to advance the cause of peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos said during an online b...

[New Times] So far, 800 families living in high-risk areas have been relocated and are now being provided with shelter.

[New Times] Extreme poverty fell from 11.3 per cent to 5.4 per cent - meaning that it was more than halved.

[New Times] Key changes include the introduction of a merit or demerit point system, in which drivers earn or lose points annually based on their driving behaviour.

[New Times] The High Council Chamber for International Crimes (HCCIC) in Nyanza District is set to continue the appeal trial of genocide convict Béatrice Munyenyezi on May 14. Munyenyezi is appealing a conviction for her role in the 1994 Genocid...