Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling ...

The U.S. State Department found that the human rights situation in South Africa has "significantly worsened" over the past year, citing reports of "extrajudicial killings" and repression against ...

Section 1. Purpose. In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 (Act), to enable the government of South ...

One hundred and fifty years after the imperialist partition of Africa, and six decades after the flags of formal independence were first raised, the continent is a social powder keg. Mass protests in ...

African politics is not built on ideology alone but on survival. Where the state fails ...

It is a great honour and my pleasure to address this important gathering that seeks to reflect on the state of democracy in Africa. First of all, I thank the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Foundation, for ...

Last weekend, insurgents from IS-aligned groups the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn raid on a military base in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

Africa’s real estate sector is neither collapsing nor booming but is pivoting towards solar-powered malls, cold storage hubs, data centres and housing. A cocktail of Covid-related aftershocks, ...

Experts say there is little difference between apartheid and Jim Crow. LONDON -- Bongani Sibeko was just a toddler when he and his family were forced to flee their home in apartheid South Africa, as ...

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) has announced the launch of its latest report, written in collaboration with data and analytics company S&P Global Commodity Insights, at the African Energy Week: ...

Dubbed ‘The State of African Energy 2022,’ the report provides a detailed understanding of the continent’s sector, introducing key insights and reliable and actionable information through the ...