
On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Khamenei. Iran retaliated with missiles,...




Aggrieved Chagossians must be heard in negotiations between the UK and Mauritius over who owns the Chagos Archipelago.














Al-Bashir's ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three...

Religious sensitivity has always been a difficult issue to navigate, even in the contemporary world. When it comes to the depiction of God, the whitewashing of...

African leaders ignore their youthful population at their peril.

Sudan's academics have been instrumental in bringing regime change and negotiating transitions.

Hip-hop artists in Nigeria unpack the realities of the country's cyber fraudsters.

Sudanese protesters against al-Bashir's regime have scored an important victory. But there's a long way to go before democracy is restored.

Ailing 82-year-old Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika handed in his resignation on live TV in one of his few public sightings in the last six years. Since...

The hashtags #AlgeriaWakesUp and #SudanUprising have been important signifiers of the fact that Africans as a people are tired of old, ineffective regimes that do not...

Khadambi Asalache, poet and pioneer of modern English Kenyan literature, lived an extraordinary life. Now, more than a decade after his death, the public can view...

Stories about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been evolving as descent narratives telling about journeys through hell.