The children walk among carcasses of animals dead from hunger and exhaustion, a stark image of the drought threatening millions of people in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Kenya, and now Ethiopia have raised the

The insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province has shifted west, with communities attacked and thousands displaced as forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) continue the operations they began last year.

A Tanzanian jihadist leader responsible for audacious attacks in northern Mozambique has been killed, police announced Monday. Tuahil Muhidim led a 2020 attack that captured Mocimboa da Praia, the northern port used to receive cargo

The Nigerian Army announced last week that troops dealt a deadly blow to Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) fighters in Borno State. Soldiers stormed Gudumbali after ISWAP elements declared the northeastern town their

The European Union has agreed to impose travel bans and asset freezes on five members of Mali’s junta after the military rulers went back on an agreement to organise elections in February, three diplomats said.

France says it will review its military presence in Mali, along with its European partners, a day after the junta in Bamako ordered the French ambassador to leave. French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said Paris

With highly expected symbolism, Russia’s primary focus at the forthcoming November summit in St. Petersburg with African leaders, corporate business directors, representatives from the academic community, civil society organizations and media will largely be renewing

A backwards glance at emblematic governance and security events in Africa in 2021 may offer a glimmer of what lies ahead for the continent in 2022. This blog shines a spotlight on some of the

What’s new? In the first week of February, the African Union (AU) will hold its annual heads of state summit ahead of its twenty-year anniversary in July. The meeting offers an opportunity for AU member states

Quatre soldats sénégalais ont été tués et sept autres pris en otages par des rebelles du Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance (MDFC) lors d’un affrontement le 24 janvier en Gambie, a-t-on appris de source