South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Diaspora remittances are a vital source of income for many African countries, contributing significantly to both household and national economic stability. ・Remittances are crucial for African ...

Around 8,636 kilometers in total, the first motorway connection begins in Cairo, Egypt along the North African coast before ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

As one could expect, the African continent is an obvious contender for attracting major powers as part of this realignment.

The country, also a former colony of France, hosts close to 1,500 French troops and is one of France’s largest overseas military contingents. In West and Central Africa, France continues to ...

Many Congolese see the rebel advance as an invasion of their country by a foreign power in an attempt to seize land and Congo’s valuable rare minerals. By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier ...

Vladimir Putin grabbed Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used local separatist ...