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The putschist general may stay in power after a constitutional change allows him to stand in next year’s elections

Lovemore Matuke, who led Mnangagwa’s campaign for a third term, is the new spy chief and security coordinator

Facing challenges to his authority from the army, which installed him in 2017 and his campaign for a third term in disarray, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Lovemore Matuke,...

After a spate of reverses in the region, the French President is boosting ties with Ghana and Nigeria

One data point sums up the commercial stakes: there are more French companies in Nigeria than there are in the rest of West Africa. It also painted the...

Against a backdrop of slow recovery from a devastating national debt crisis, the vice-president promises to make history

Using the slogan ‘Breaking the Eight’, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is vying to succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an ambitious bid to win a third consecutive national...

After a spate of coups swept West Africa, the President has stacked key positions with officers from his home region

Faced with security threats on multiple levels – jihadist fighters, mass unrest and would-be putschists – President Bola Tinubu is taking no chances. He is building the country’s...

The UK won’t support Zimbabwe’s readmission to the Commonwealth, we hear, although it could threaten its charm offensive on the continent

Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland’s plan to re-admit Zimbabwe has run into resistance from Britain’s Labour government, diplomatic sources have told Africa Confidential. It was felt that taking...

With demonstrators marching again in Luanda, the MPLA government may start taking more risks

When US President Joe Biden arrives in Angola on 2 December, he will be able to compare succession notes with his counterpart João Lourenço. After pushing some ground-breaking...

Like his populist counterpart across the Atlantic, South Africa’s much prosecuted leader keeps bouncing back

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is shaping the landscape as it gears up for its first anniversary on 16 December, its ranks bolstered by several high-profile defectors...

After Irro’s victory, the government must respond to demands on corruption and jobs as it tries to hold the territory together

The decisive victory for Abdirahman Mahamed Abdullahi Irro with 64% in the 13 November presidential elections should be seen as the culmination of two years of politicking during...

With incumbents out of favour in the region, the outcome of the elections is on a knife-edge

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (known as NNN) was swimming against the regional tide as she campaigned to become Namibia’s first female head of state in the parliamentary and presidential...

By failing to agree on a new cash target, the Baku delegates are acting in character but could break up the UN climate bargaining process

The failure by delegates to agree on the core climate finance target at the Baku summit would risk a breakdown as serious as the collapse of the UN...

EU lawmakers have brought in wide-ranging exemptions to the forestry laws but few African states will benefit

The European Parliament’s vote on 14 November to take apart the EU’s deforestation rules is another step in the weakening of the bloc’s Green Deal laws. It has...

New alliances are unlikely to stop the popular president and his Pastef party from success in the snap legislative election

If President Bassirou Diomaye Faye hoped a relaxation of nomination rules for the 17 November parliamentary elections would see opposition to his ruling Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour...

Revenge rarely tastes so sweet. A year ago Ousmane Sonko was in jail, his hopes of standing in Senegal’s 2024 presidential poll clearly doomed. Now he has celebrated...

No official reaction has followed Africa Confidential and the Gambian Republic investigative website’s article on sanctions-busting by a Russian company in Banjul. The United Arab Emirates-registered company Apogee...

Pope Francis’s plan to beatify Belgium’s late King Baudouin risks re-opening the wounds of Congo-Kinshasa’s brutal colonial past.

States rich in critical minerals could win big investments as Washington jostles for access with Beijing

Countries sitting on the minerals to power the energy transition – such as copper, cobalt and lithium – expect a more determined push for access from US mining...

Rebooting economic growth and and cutting unemployment are the new President’s priorities

The pace of the political transition in Botswana matches the urgency of the new government’s agenda: to stabilise an economy in free fall with youth unemployment hitting 38%....

Seven years after the coup, Mnangagwa’s manoeuverings to stay in power are angering Chiwenga and other generals

Opposition to the tax reforms necessary to boost revenues is fuelled by economic hardship and scepticism about spending choices

The President walks a fine line, relying on military support from Moscow as he shores up ties with the EU and France

Companies, banks and juntas are adapting to a new era for the international system

A wave of murders and abductions at the hands of the police has prompted condemnation from civic activists and diplomats

A US-sanctioned Russian illegally imported US$29 million worth of diesel to The Gambia, sold it there, and sent the money to the UAE, but the authorities seem uninterested

Paris has lost power in its old chasse gardée but French companies are spreading their wings across the continent

A $100 million museum to exhibit Benin bronzes looted by British soldiers is opening but few of the artefacts will be on display

The green shoots of economic recovery may be coming too late for the ruling party’s electoral chances

Africa’s bargaining chips at COP29 are ‘green ores’, and trading its forests, grasslands and shorelines as carbon sinks

Opposition firebrand Mondlane is staking everything on his calls for mass protests in the capital on 7 November

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Kenyan President William Ruto says he and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will help arbitrate the dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia

France’s exit from the Sahel region speeds up as N’djamena ends its defence cooperation agreement with Paris

The electoral commission’s extension of voting in the general election after technical problems and ballot paper shortages prompts complaints

The decision by runner-up Venâncio Mondlane to rebuff President Filipe Nyusi's offer of talks on 26 November means the impasse will continue

US President Biden wants to make the Lobito Corridor project a legacy of his administration’s Africa policy on his visit to Angola next week

African states are among the biggest losers from the minimalist pledges in the final hours of the UN COP29 climate summit in Baku on 23 November

The new president has won an overwhelming vote of confidence but now has to push through a tough budget

European and US backtracking on green policies could block cash for countries hardest hit by extreme weather

The latest plans to change the constitution include clauses to abolish presidential term limits

Navin Ramgoolam, looks set to return as Prime Minister for the third time after almost 10 years in opposition

The regional dispute is escalating as Mogadishu says Ethiopian troops are not welcome and have been excluded from the peacekeeping operation

Civil society groups have reported around 40 deaths at the hands of security forces in post-election riots, which have caused major economic damage

Despite the economic chaos and his posturing, Mnangagwa wants to extend his presidency

The Prime Minister has made efforts to calm tensions amid the escalating dispute with Mogadishu and to avert his state’s potential isolation in the region

The Fund has asked Ruto to restore the trust of the public by improving governance and transparency