Hours away from final result, Peter Mutharika leads Malawian elections

Despite there being 17 candidates, the poll was dominated by incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and former president Peter Mutharika

Tanzania’s 2025 general elections campaign has taken a dramatic turn after the removal of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) party’s candidate — former minister and outspoken legislator Luhaga Mpina — from the presidential race.  The decision announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) is widely seen as strengthening President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s […]

If the Department of State Policy Provisions Act is passed into law, the US will support Zimbabwe borrowing money from international lenders such as the World Bank

HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach people now closed

This is the first presidential race since the Constitutional Court annulled the 2019 results

Kabila, who has been living in exile since late 2023, faces charges including treason, complicity with M23 rebels, crimes against humanity and corruption

The dam is expected to be the Horn of Africa country’s solution to acute power shortages, but it brings problems for downstream countries

Opposition officials in the DRC have accused the government of blocking their attempts to travel to the forum hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation

The government is relieved by the reduction in the tariffs from the threatened 50% to 15%

African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year

The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid

The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies