To fulfil its promise to fight impunity, Ethiopia needs to enact legislation criminalising gross human rights violations. In June 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali told Parliament that the post-1991 government used torture and

By allowing Uganda and Burundi to enter the troubled region to pursue their enemies, Tshisekedi has provoked a backlash from Kagame. Tensions are spiking once again in the chronically turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of the

Libya’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said on Wednesday his government supported removing all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, guided by a committee set up to safeguard a ceasefire after the 2014-2020 conflict. In

The revival talks come at a strategic time as the European Union seeks to wean itself off Russian gas following the invasion of Ukraine. Algeria, Niger and Nigeria held talks this week on the revival

Efforts are underway to reinvigorate the Central African Republic’s political process, which has lapsed into a state of “de facto lethargy” even as horrific attacks against civilians have risen, the senior UN official in the

The African Union has refuted earlier reports that the bloc is to withdraw from the AU-IGAD-UNITAMS Trilateral Mechanism*, established to support Sudan through the next phase of the political process. A statement by the AU

The Parliamentary Budget Office has warned that campaign spending could lead to possible inflation in the country. On August 9, Kenyans head to the polls to vote in a highly contested race to decide the

The third edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development kicked off on Tuesday. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed the participants via videoconference, urging African countries to join hands to address the current

Abstract: Over the past several years, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company (PMC), has become an increasingly important instrument in Russia’s foreign policy toolkit, especially in Africa where Moscow has sought to expand