Politics

Polling stations opened across Guinea on June 1, 2026, for a set of elections that most observers regard as the most consequential political test the country has faced since the transition agreement that followed the 2021 coup. Legislative and municipal elections — long delayed, repeatedly rescheduled, and now finally underway — will determine whether Guinea’s […]

It was a moment that few in Kenya thought they would ever witness. On Madaraka Day, June 1, 2026 — exactly 63 years after the country’s independence — President William Ruto stood before a crowd in Wajir and apologised to the people of northern Kenya for decades of systematic neglect by the state. The apology,

At least eleven people were killed in a mass shooting in South Africa on Sunday, in what police are describing as a targeted attack on a social gathering in the East Rand area east of Johannesburg. Officers arrived on the scene to find multiple casualties; the death toll rose through the night as several of

In Yaoundé, the corridors of power have grown eerily quiet. Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 91-year-old president who has ruled the central African nation with an iron grip since 1982, has not appeared in public for several weeks, sparking an unprecedented wave of speculation about his health and the future of a country already wrestling with multiple

In Yaoundé, the corridors of power have grown eerily quiet. Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 91-year-old president who has ruled the central African nation with an iron grip since 1982, has not appeared in public for several weeks, sparking an unprecedented wave of speculation about his health and the future of a country already wrestling with multiple