Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named Major General Hassan Mahmoud Rashad as head of the powerful general intelligence agency on Wednesday, appointing the outgoing chief Abbas Kamel as an adviser to the presidency. The agency

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named Major General Hassan Mahmoud Rashad as head of the powerful general intelligence agency on Wednesday, appointing the outgoing chief Abbas Kamel as an adviser to the presidency. The agency
Nigeria’s ambition to build a value-added supply chain for critical minerals including lithium is getting a significant boost from an unlikely source: an e-marketplace startup. Sabi, the Lagos-headquartered business-to-business e-commerce company focused on the informal
Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the war-weary Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and deploying its troops in the embattled country. To Ethiopia’s growing alarm, Egypt is also set to join the multinational force
Across the region, the promise of a better life under the military is fast turning into a nightmare. In recent times, as the military knocked off one civilian regime after another across the Sahel, observers
The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others. Days later, he was back on the same route that claimed their lives in
Le président somalien Hassan Sheikh Mohamud s’est rendu en Erythrée jeudi où son homologe égyptien Abdel Fattah al-Sissi doit effectuer une visite le même jour, dans un contexte de tension entre la Somalie et son
Le Premier ministre du Burkina Faso en visite en Russie. Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela s’est rendu à Moscou pour la 8e édition des journées économiques du Burkina Faso qui se tient dans la capitale
Taye Atske Sélassié a été élu par les parlementaires en remplacement de Sahle-Work Zewde. Chef de l’Etat, son poste est honorifique, l’essentiel du pouvoir étant entre les mains du premier ministre. Le ministre des affaires
Le président sortant Kais Saied, accusé par la société civile de “dérive autoritaire”, a été réélu à une majorité écrasante de 90,7% en Tunisie, lors d’un scrutin dimanche “verrouillé” à l’avance et marqué par un
Burkina Faso’s junta has suspended U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America for three months over comments about a jihadist insurgency in West Africa’s Sahel region, and temporarily banned local news outlets from using any international media