By de-legitimising and sanitising, Raila Odinga forces a president to accommodate him as co-president in government.

At least six police personnel were killed in Kenya and four were injured in an attack on a police camp by suspected Islamist ...

Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's presidential ...

Authorities blame the deadly attack in the town of Kokorou on the Islamic State in the Great Sahara, an ISIL affiliate.

Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil ...

The masked soldiers belong to the Tigray Defence Forces ( TDF ), the region’s army. By attempting what is, in effect, a coup, ...

Baroness Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary-general, in response said she looked forward to Zimbabwe’s return “when the conditions are right”.

President William Ruto’s careful silence amid explosive coup allegations speaks volumes about Kenya’s delicate power dynamics ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly condemned the declaration of a state of emergency in ...

The report, “Niger: Threatened and Brought to Heel: Human Rights and Civic Space under pressure since the 26 July Coup”, ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

The junta-run country quit the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an international group of French-speaking ...