France has long trumpeted its close ties to Africa. French troops have not hesitated to jump in to support a favored despot. It appears that the favors went both ways. Robert Bourgi, a longtime ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -For investors, the spectacle of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's fraught Oval Office encounter with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was little more than a sideshow. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, ...

In The Age of Change: How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics, Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), explores ...

The spate of military coups in Africa is starting to raise concerns about the future of democracy in the region. We spoke to five political analysts in four African countries for insight into the ...

It is so crucial, and even urgent for the leaders to heed the voices of the youth, if we are to silence the guns," said African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Power-hungry ...

The African National Congress (ANC), Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Frelimo, MPLA, Swapo, and Zanu PF must confront a sobering truth that they do not embody all the aspirations of the continent’s people, ...

For the average African citizen, the term "election" no longer evokes the promise of democratic renewal; instead, it triggers a profound existential ...

Africa possesses some of the world’s most extensive and diverse natural resource endowments, News.az reports. These include ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new organization known as the African Political Action Committee of Staten Island has launched in the hopes of ensuring that the voices of African and African American ...

LIBERATION political parties once strode across Africa as giants of history. They were the vanguard of independence, the ...