AFRICA

Both men are Nilotes. It is the first time in Kenya that the leading claimants to the throne have both...

Kenya is no stranger to highly contested elections. Several of the country’s past polls have seen high levels of conflict....

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta – whose final term in office ends after the 9 August polls – has been a...

Sudan claims seven of its soldiers and a civilian were “executed” by the Ethiopian military after holding them captive. In...

The rest of the EAC leaders looked the other way as violence descended on Bujumbura. In South Sudan, elections were...

Kinshasa this week said Kigali was backing the March 23 Movement, which Rwanda denies, amid renewed clashes between the Congolese...

I have studied peacekeeping since the early 1990s, when I worked at the United Nations in New York during the devastating...

Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was on Tuesday re-elected as head of the World Health Organization, for a second five-year. The...

Integration would mean a truly united Africa – either a federalist “United States of Africa” or the African Union (AU)...

These events made headlines worldwide and led to a reaction from the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. The uptick in fighting between...