Egypt, at the crossroads of the Middle East and Africa, hopes to make its own sizable military-industrial complex – nourished ...

Nigeria, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday swiftly condemned an attempted military takeover in the Benin Republic, which saw soldiers briefly ...

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, commonly known as IOG, has been the president of Djibouti since 1999. He succeeded the country’s first ...

Dr. Alaaeldin Awad Nogoud is a Sudanese medical surgeon whose foray into politics in 2018, ahead of the revolution that ...

Ex-cyclist Zeragaber Gebrehiwot, who attended the 1980 Moscow Games, is among 13 released from a notorious jail.

It also requires governments to treat external capital and security assistance as resources to be channelled through ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals to the general ...

Alliances have formed, generals prepare, and the Ethiopian powder keg looks set to blow. All eyes are on Mr Abiy, and how far he is really willing to go to achieve his vision of an expanded Ethiopia.

A group of Eritrean community members are banding together to try to bring a clinical psychologist from East Africa to ...

Preventive diplomacy is vital to stop another devastating war in the Horn of Africa amid rising tensions over Tigray and ...

Egypt and Sudan are unwittingly playing into the hands of the Horn of Africa’s most dangerous terrorist group: al-Shabaab.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia's long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday after an ...