Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once commanded legitimacy as national liberators ...

Africa watchers in Washington, D.C., were dispirited—though not surprised—when an email calling the continent “a peripheral—rather than a core theater for US interest” recently surfaced from the head of the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.

The African Union’s public health agency has tapped the architect and champion of US President Donald Trump’s commercial diplomacy in Africa to avoid being left in the dust by Trump’s new America First global health strategy. Troy Fitrell, a former ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Coups and attempted coups in West Africa, along with escalating security challenges, have left the region in a state of emergency, a leader of the regional bloc said Tuesday. Omar Touray, president of the Economic Community of West ...

February 24 marks sixty years since Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a military coup. Nkrumah had been a vocal campaigner for Pan-Africanism, a United States of Africa that would work together as a political and economic bloc.

One hundred and fifty years after the imperialist partition of Africa, and six decades after the flags of formal independence were first raised, the continent is a social powder keg. Mass protests in Tanzania have shattered the myth of a peaceful land of ...

The U.S. sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, as it intensified its bombardment with Israel of Iran's security forces and other symbols of power.

The war has killed more than 1,000 people in Iran, more than 70 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel. Six US troops have been killed.