The confidential briefing lays bare structural failures in the FARDC, from weak command and intelligence gaps to unpaid soldiers and rising reliance on poorly controlled militia groups.
Three days after the FLA and JNIM offensive, which claimed the life of defence minister General Sadio Camara, Assimi Goïta broke his silence on 28 April. But the crisis has already laid bare the divisions within the military regime.
Despite TPLF denials, a recording purportedly featuring a senior official indicates a willingness to trade with Eritrea and align with domestic armed groups against the federal centre.
Ghana is the latest in a string of African countries standing up to US President Donald Trump’s health aid conditions in order to protect its citizens’ data.
The joint offensive by Tuareg separatists and JNIM in Mali has exposed the limits of Russia’s security guarantee – a ‘regime survival package’ that may not deliver for Assimi Goïta’s junta and the Alliance of Sahel States.
With a $22.4bn balance sheet and a focus on corporate finance, the Nigerian lender aims to break the deadlock facing its peers in francophone West Africa.
A blow-by-blow account of the recapture of the historic northern bastion by Tuareg rebels and JNIM exposes the fragility of Bamako’s military junta and the limits of Russian support in the Sahel.
The governor discusses the historic eurobond success, the fight against money laundering and why the country’s financial system must finally embrace transparency.
A new 20,000-man unit will oversee the transport and extraction of critical minerals as the DRC aligns with American industrial interests – but the US embassy denies direct funding.
The evangelical movement in Africa has never been so successful. With their unabashed celebration of material success, megachurches from Lagos to Kinshasa attract tens of thousands of worshippers every Sunday, making their millionaire…
A quiet succession battle to replace Raila Odinga as the leader of the opposition Azimio la Umoja coalition and the Orange Democratic Movement party, has started, as the veteran leader lobbies for the chairmanship of the African Union…
Sall’s proposed amnesty for prisoners involved in protests since 2021 could itself prove divisive: some critics say it would release violent protesters, while others claim it would exonerate government officials for civilian deaths.
Yemi Kale, Nigeria’s longest-serving statistician-general and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has joined the African Export-Import Bank less than a year after he returned to the private sector.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is under pressure to grow the stuttering economy and regain voter trust ahead of the general elections in three months. Analysts warn Nelson Mandela’s party may lose its national…
Land ownership and rights remain contentious in Zimbabwe nearly 25 years after the harsh Land Reform Programme. New mass evictions by the government affect around 4,000 people – many card-carrying members of ZANU-PF.
With the theme of ‘The Wake’ and the United States as guest country, the young Franco-Senegalese artistic director of this year’s Dakar Biennale aims to create a truly international show that strengthens the contemporary art ecosystem on…
The media rebranding attempts of the infamous Sudan Rapid Support Forces militia commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, AKA Hemeti, have reached unprecedented and absurd levels.
Nigeria’s anti-graft commission has launched a crackdown on Bureaux de Change (BDCs) in the country as the government ramps up efforts to tackle a forex crisis.
To save ECOWAS from ‘disunity’, Nigeria’s 89-year-old former president Yakubu Gowon has returned to the pulpit to ask for sanctions against the rebel states to be lifted, and is pleading with them to ‘come back’.
Coups, wars, and bureaucratic barriers at borders are stumbling blocks to implementing Africa’s free trade agreement, which is championed by the former president of a country that experienced a coup itself recently.
More than 1.3 million Burkinabes and half a million Malians live in the Côte d’Ivoire thanks to ECOWAS freedom of movement, many of them running small businesses. They fear for their livelihoods and their right to remain now that Burkina…
Senegal’s embattled President Macky Sall said Thursday night that his mandate as president will end on 2 April, putting to rest concerns he may prolong his mandate amid confusion over his election postponement.
The US asset manager’s climate fund has reached an agreement with Denmark’s Vestas to buy its stake in the Lake Turkana project, Africa’s largest wind farm.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader of Ghana’s parliament and a vice presidential contender, has resigned after days of speculations that the leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was planning to remove him.