It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Beyond geopolitics, the Benin episode exposes deeper governance and security problems that produced the mutiny’s rhetoric.

Politics often pivots on moments of rupture, and it is in those ruptures that new political calculations are made. West ...

In this episode of 'How I Make My Money', Stephen Grootes takes you inside the mind of Dr Ralph Mathekga, one of SA’s most ...

There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

Police have found a bakkie abandoned in Alexandra, which they believe matches the description of the one used in the murder ...

The most glaring failure in building democratic principles in Africa has been the lack of sanctions from the AU when ...

Once seen as a youthful moderniser, Governor of Nairobi Johnson Sakaja now presides over a capital drifting into disorder and ...

The daughter of a former South African president has been accused of illegally recruiting men to fight for Russia in its war ...

To be African must mean more than holding a passport stamped by colonial cartography. It must mean belonging to a shared ...

The African Action Congress (AAC) has inaugurated a new National Working Committee (NWC), declaring a renewed, uncompromising ...

Legal expert Dr Suhayfa Bhamjee argues the appointment of South Africa’s next National Director of Public Prosecutions is not ...