Soaring oil prices have signaled fresh difficulties for African countries that are net fuel importers and that were just recovering from severe crises triggered first by Covid-19 and then by the war ...

An analysis by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) on the implications of disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz warns that “access to fertilisers may worsen for some of the ...

Siegfried Modola is an award-winning, Kenya-raised Italian and British photojournalist and documentary photographer focusing on social, humanitarian, and geopolitical events. He lives in Paris with a ...

The language around Somalia is often confusing and sensitive to those it describes. That is why choosing the right term matters, sometimes because it can ensure respect just as much as accuracy.

Amid the Iran war, Israel is quietly planning for a potential base at the mouth of the Red Sea that would allow it to target one of Tehran’s last-remaining proxies.

Escalating conflict across the Gulf is threatening remittance flows that sustain millions of African households, putting migrant jobs, trade routes and fintech money transfers under pressure.

Egypt’s involvement is driven by existential concerns over the Nile. This is particularly about a dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. This is a massive project on the Blue ...

An estimated 50,000 Kenyans died during the violent conflict between Mau Mau guerrillas and British forces, and from disease ...

Decades after it lost its coast to Eritrea, the country has moved forces close to the border region—raising fears of another ...

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of some 80,000 people of Somali heritage, has been headline ...

Kalonzo, who has previously served in the Foreign Affairs docket, pointed out the callousness and nonchalant attitude of the ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Africa braces for the economic and political ripple ...