While political conflicts like Israel-Palestine, Ukraine-Russia, or U.S. elections dominate global headlines, Africa remains largely overlooked. Despite widespread chants of “From the river to the sea ...

Historical experience also instilled in Isaias a distrust of the international community, perhaps understandably given ...

Competition for influence on the African continent is an undeniable geopolitical reality. The Donald Trump administration’s ...

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Once infamous for fighting on horseback and ransacking villages like medieval raiders, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently acquired the weapons of 21st-century war. In early May the Sudanese ...

The use of military drones is spreading across Africa, further destabilising countries facing deep tensions between typically authoritarian governments and rebel groups. While these governments have ...

Placeholders prepare for the family photo of the G20 foreign ministers meeting that was later cancelled in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) ...

In the current trade conflict between the US and China, the most misunderstood player isn’t China or the US — it’s Africa. And that’s no coincidence. Too often, the continent is treated as a pawn in ...

For much of the post-Cold War period, Africa was cast in Western imagination as a continent of permanent emergency; defined by conflict, dependency, and the need for external correction.Today, that ...

President Trump asked the United Nations why it exists, at his speech to the 80th annual General Assembly on Tuesday. He said during negotiations to end wars in Africa and the Middle East, "the United ...