By Fidel Amakye Owusu The continent can no longer afford to wait for the world’s attention to turn its way. As conflict in the Middle East...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Godfred Zina In recent years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has found itself at the center of a fierce geopolitical and moral debate across Africa....
By Apollo Buregyeya When the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began generating electricity in 2023, it marked more than an engineering triumph – it signaled a...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
After succeeding in pushing Ethiopia and Somalia to reach a deal and agreeing to respect one another’s “sovereignty,” Türkiye has turned its attention to the Sudan...
French Influence in Africa continues waning, as its former colonies redefine their strategic partnerships toward Russia. Chadian authorities indicated that it would end a key defense...
By Mary Alorh Sudan’s crisis has not merely awakened dormant tensions but has instead revealed profound and long-standing societal challenges. Decades of political instability and neglect...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, Mali unilaterally withdrew from the G5 Sahel after the military alliance raised concerns about the country’s internal affairs. This decision...
By Gregory Simpkins While the international community focuses on Israel’s war with Hamas and now Hezbollah, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and speculates about a possible struggle involving...
By Mike Muller A new round of angry exchanges has broken out between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). On September 1,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the conflict in Sudan began in April 2023, it seemed like a minor skirmish that could be resolved quickly with a...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Despite Africa having 54 sovereign countries, each with multiple borders, the continent’s state evolution has not been marked by many full-scale interstate...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The military government of Sudan continues to insist that the African Union (AU) removes sanctions it had imposed on it, and fully...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the major impediments to the search for peace in a conflict situation is when there are better alternatives to negotiated...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April this year, it dominated...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
Reuters | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
By Gregory Simpkins The current conflict in Sudan is the result of unintended consequences of a previous ruler’s protection scheme, a struggle for power and control...
AP | Sudan’s military leaders and pro-democracy forces vowed to begin establishing a new civilian-led transitional government on April 11, a spokesperson representing both parties said...
By Gregory Simpkins I have worked on analyzing Africa issues for more than 40 years, and during that time, I have constantly heard appeals for humanitarian...
Reuters | Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday,...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
AP | The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable...
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum Yibeltal Aemero Alemu said Sudan and Ethiopia reached an agreement to peacefully resolve the border dispute. Yibeltal did not specify when bilateral...
Reuters | Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, 6 weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup...
Sources close to Hamdok had said previously he would only remain in office if he had political support.
AP | Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup...
Reuters | The African Union has suspended Sudan’s participation in all activities until the restoration of the civilian-led authority, it said in a communique dated Tuesday....
By Hisham Eldardiry Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on...
Reuters | Sudan’s ruling council head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced on Monday a state of emergency across the country and the dissolution of the transitional sovereign...
By David Thomas Africa’s film and audiovisual industry could create over 20 million jobs and an extra US$20 billion in annual revenues with further investment, according...
Reuters | U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a...
Rebellious young people aren't a threat - they're the key to democratic reform
The country is emerging from decades of economic sanctions and isolation under ousted former President Omar al-Bashir
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan will to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on April 2, 2015, Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said. Registration of...
South Sudan has urged Sudan to prevent armed groups, including rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar, from using its territory to launch attacks against...
South Sudan’s warring parties have gathered in Ethiopia Thursday for peace talks aimed at ending nearly 3 weeks of a conflict that may escalate into a...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has unveiled a partially new cabinet, in a move prompted by the resignation of Vice President...
In an unofficial referendum, residents of a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan said they want to join South Sudan. The outcome, announced Wednesday, is...
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir (l) meets with his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir (r). PHOTO/Reuters (AFP) – Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on Monday pledged to work...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP (AP) – Civil rights activists and human rights lawyers Monday demanded that Nigeria arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and deliver...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Latest reports from the Darfur province in Sudan indicates that a goldmine has collapsed and 60 miners are thought to be trapped. A member of parliament...
Several thousand former South Sudanese rebels have surrendered to the government and returned home from alleged rear bases in neighboring Sudan, government and rebel officials in...
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in South Sudan on Friday for the first time since Africa’s once-largest country split in 2011, raising cautious hopes the...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan’s president said he intends to step down in 2015 after more than 20 years in power. In an interview...
(Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to order the resumption of the flow of southern oil exports through pipelines in Sudan within two weeks,...
Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir try to push forward on stalled security, oil and border agreements.
(Reuters) – Sudan has put a fresh obstacle in the way of allowing its land-locked southern neighbor to pipe its oil to the Red Sea, South...
South Sudan plans to resume oil shipments in February 2013 once its parliament ratifies a raft of deals reached last month in Addis Ababa with the...
The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan have reached nine agreements but did not work out the issues surrounding the contested Abyei region or the demarcation...
Workers processing gold at the new Sudan Gold Refinery. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) – Sudan opened its first gold refinery on Wednesday as it seeks to improve the...
(Reuters) – Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to...
(Reuters) – South Sudan expects to restart some oil output in December and more after June next year, an official said on Tuesday, after the new...
A cabinet minister was among 32 politicians, generals and others killed on Sunday when a plane crashed on its way to Sudan’s troubled South Kordofan state...
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir The African Union will move a July summit from Malawi if the country keeps up its efforts to block the attendance...
Sudan’s army will begin pulling out of the contested region of Abyei from Tuesday, as demanded by the United Nations, the army spokesman said. “We will...
Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sundan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “security...
(Reuters) – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday he would not allow conflict with South Sudan to overshadow “strategic relations” with its people, striking...
The African Union (AU) says that Sudan has endorsed the AU’s roadmap to avert an all-out war with South Sudan. The AU Commission said late Wednesday...
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday threatening non-military sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan if they don’t halt escalating violence on their border...
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution that warns Sudan and South Sudan of sanctions if they...
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor. PHOTO/AFP In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, right, reviews an honour guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao. PHOTO/Alexander F. Yuan/AP The president of the world’s newest nation, South...
The president of South Sudan says attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country. Salva Kiir made the remark Tuesday during...
South Sudan will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, the president announced Friday, pulling back from offensive military...
Sudan on Wednesday asked Ethiopia to intervene in its latest conflict with South Sudan, which has heightened fears of a fresh war. Sudan president Omar Al...
Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops,a southern spokesman said Wednesday. The fighting...
Troops from South Sudan moved into an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan as fighting intensified between the countries over who controls the area, officials said...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
South Sudan has called on the United Nations to push Sudan to free dozens of its citizens that the later was holding in slavery. Chief negotiator...
Landlocked South Sudan has signed a second oil pipeline deal in a bid to reduce its dependence on Sudan – amid a deepening oil crisis. The...
Equatorial Guinea has finally bowed out of the African Cup of Nations after overcoming a last-minute coaching change and a disrupted buildup to provide some of...
(Reuters) – South Sudan has signed an agreement with Kenya to build a pipeline to connect its oil fields with the Kenyan port of Lamu, both...
Plans by South Sudan to build an alternative pipeline through Kenya are expected to acquire fresh urgency in coming weeks as Juba shops for a route...
Plans to construct a pipeline to transport South Sudan’s oil through Uganda and Kenya in a bid to reduce over-reliance on Sudan’s infrastructure are at an...
A dated photo of the Merowe Dam – then underconstruction The multi-billion dollar Merowe Dam on the Nile River more than doubled Sudan’s electricity supply, but...
North Sudan’s defense minister faces International Criminal Court (ICC) charges for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the country’s war-torn region of Darfur, the court...
Sudan President., Omar al-Bashir PHOTO/REUTERS A court in Nairobi has issued a warrant requiring that President Kibaki’s government arrest and hand over Sudan leader Omar al...
North Sudan will go ahead with plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution and strengthen Islamic law, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday, three months...
North Sudan has granted its main ally and oil buyer China more oil exploration rights as both countries seek to boost ties, Sudan’s foreign minister said....
Fledgling nation forms cabinet and details plan for release of new money, two days after independence from North Sudan.
JUBA, Sudan — Lual D’Awol cultivated a passion for rap and basketball while living in Baltimore. Today he is in Southern Sudan, which becomes the world’s...
CAIRO — An Egyptian foreign ministry official says Egypt will recognize South Sudan after secession later this week. Mohammed Mursi told the Al-Ahram daily on Tuesday...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president threatened Wednesday to block pipelines in the south if the government there doesn’t pay to transit oil or share it with...
