Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, ...

Recently, many voices in Tunisia have called for the publication of details of a bilateral security agreement with Algeria, ...

Also featuring exposés on sex-trafficking of workers in Dubai, secret mass deportations of Tunisians from the EU, and ...

Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and The Gambia are among countries where established rulers are seeking to hold on to power in 2026. Will they succeed?

From constitutional reform and economic stabilisation to football fever and contentious social debates, this year will test ...

As 2026 begins, a review of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) highlights how African countries continued to bear the ...

Analysis - The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which – following a violence-wracked 2025 – are ...

Column - Africa is not a sleeping giant; it is a suffocated one. Its lungs have long been pressed by the weight of imperial duplicity, its arteries drained by extractive economies masquerading as ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

Two years of tension between Benin and Niger this week saw the West African neighbours carry out a tit-for-tat expulsion of ...

Masri, published by the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, offers a panoramic reading of a world that has ...

Africa’s strategic minerals are no longer just economic assets. They are levers of power. Gold in the Sahel, cobalt and lithium in the DRC, fuel alliances, arm militias and shape global partnerships.