Conflict & Security

The ruling military junta in Burkina Faso has suspended the country largest student organization and ordered the arrest of its president, in what opposition politicians and human rights advocates say is the latest move in a systematic campaign to silence dissenting voices and consolidate military control over every dimension of public life. The Targeted Student […]

Kenya President William Ruto has issued his clearest warning yet that he will not accept any effort to deny him a second term in office, making the statement during a high-energy rally in the Rift Valley — a region that has historically been the epicentre of Kenya deadliest election-related violence. The remarks have sent shockwaves

In Namibia, owning a home has become an impossible dream for the majority of the population. A new report from the Bank of Namibia has laid bare the scale of the crisis: approximately 70% of Namibians cannot afford to purchase property at current market prices. The finding has reignited debate over the country colonial legacy,

The escalating conflict involving Iran has put more African nations on a path to seeking emergency financing from the World Bank and bilateral creditors, according to a confidential briefing document seen by Reuters and confirmed by three senior African finance ministry officials. The warning marks a significant escalation in the economic toll of the Middle

When President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the government of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko in May, it was supposed to be a decisive moment that ended months of institutional deadlock and gave the president a free hand to pursue his reform agenda. Instead, the dismissal triggered a political earthquake that has reshaped the landscape of Senegalese

Sudan’s electricity infrastructure has sustained up to three billion dollars in damage since the civil war erupted in April 2023, according to a new United Nations Development Programme assessment that documents the systematic destruction of power systems that once served millions of Sudanese households, hospitals, and farms. The report paints a picture of a country

A landmark Human Rights Watch investigation published this week has identified the United Arab Emirates as a major logistical transit point for foreign fighters and mercenaries being deployed into Sudan’s grinding civil war, lending new weight to long-standing accusations that the Gulf state is deepening its involvement in the conflict through private military contractors. The

Guinea stands at a pivotal moment as it prepares for elections that could mark the end of a prolonged military transition period and the restoration of constitutional order in one of West Africa’s most politically turbulent nations. The vote, scheduled for May, represents the most consequential test of democratic governance in the country since the

In the crowded retail corridors of Nairobi, two Kenyan supermarket chains are fighting a battle that few outside East Africa are watching closely — but whose outcome could define how the region’s consumers shop for generations. Naivas and Quickmart, once family-run operations built on the back of Kenya’s expanding middle class, are now in a

Introduction A road in western Uganda became the site of a tragic encounter between humans and wildlife this week, when three people were killed after their vehicle struck an elephant on a highway running through a region where expanding human settlement and wildlife migration corridors increasingly intersect — a collision course that has become one

Malawi is running out of fuel — and running out of patience. The crisis that has gripped the country in recent weeks, causing shortages at filling stations, pushing transport costs higher, and forcing the government into emergency procurement, is not simply a supply chain problem. It is the visible manifestation of deeper structural weaknesses in

Africa’s cities are growing faster than anything the continent has seen before — and they are running out of space to accommodate it. The numbers are staggering. Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa, and Dar es Salaam are each adding hundreds of thousands of new residents every year. Projections suggest that by 2050, the continent will have added