Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirms that several African presidents with lengthy tenures first came to power through freedom movements. Over time, many used harsh tactics to secure their authority ...

Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

President Yoweri Museveni last week interacted with senior military officers from different African countries at the Senior ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

Today in Al-Alamain City, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. The meeting was attended by Libya's Chief of Security ...

Senator Jim Risch discusses U.S. security challenges in Africa, including terrorism in Somalia, the war in Sudan, and the ...

She was named Acting South African President on Tuesday 17 March, deputising for number one, but that didn’t deter Angie ...

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has abruptly ended the national mourning period of former President Edgar Lungu in an ...

Kyiv's new embassy in the country's capital Nouakchott - among eight it has opened in Africa since Russia's 2022 invasion of ...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga will serve as South Africa’s Acting President from 17 to 19 June 2025.

The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president ...

Elsewhere in Africa, Nigerian president (2015 to 2023) Muhammadu Buhari, a former coup maker and military ruler from 1983 to ...