Egypt and Turkey held new diplomatic consultations in Cairo focused on instability across several fragile regions in Africa, including Libya, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, as both countries expand ...

FILE PHOTO: A delegate walks next to African Union (AU) member states flags ahead of the 38th Ordinary Session of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union at the African Union Commission ...

From Red Sea security to BRICS solidarity, a wider Middle East war would stress-test the continent’s fragile supply chains and geopolitical alliances, and put South Africa’s Iran links under a ...

Africa is facing an unprecedented moment of insecurity, marked by the deepening entrenchment of conflicts and the rising ...

Those who rise to power through a coup often fall by the same means. I lead a research team that compiles the Colpus Dataset of coup types and characteristics and have written on the history of coups ...

What you need to know: Moving beyond “reactive firefighting” necessitates a paradigm shift from political optics toward settlements anchored in cultural legitimacy. Within the contemporary African ...

ASMARA - Eritrea has refuted claims that it is responsible for endless conflicts in the Horn of Africa, shunning the statement issued by former Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome, who linked Asmara ...

Stretching along one of the world’s most strategic shipping corridors, the Gulf of Guinea is undergoing a quiet but consequential security realignment – one increasingly shaped by Ghana. As coups ...

Michael Woldemariam, a Horn of Africa expert at the University of Maryland, said regional actors, including Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and the Sudanese Armed ⁠Forces (SAF), ⁠have grown uneasy with the ...