On January 20, a Belgian court held a closed-door hearing to determine whether to pursue a criminal case against the last living former Belgian official for his alleged involvement in the 1961 ...

Protests and defiance occurred in Somalia after Israel's recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. Analysts say it ...

Analysis - South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, has not had an election since its independence from Sudan in 2011. Per the 2018 power-sharing agreement, the election is set to happen this year in ...

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. Its borders are Djibouti ...

The last time Morocco hosted the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in 1988, it lost by a single goal in the semi-finals ...

LIBERATION political parties once strode across Africa as giants of history. They were the vanguard of independence, the ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin described herself as an African woman “inflamed by injustice” on a mission to free her continent from colonial rule. She was ...

The last time Morocco hosted the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in 1988, it lost by a single goal in the semi-finals to eventual winners, Cameroon, who advanced to the final where they overcame ...

Yoweri Museveni, Paul Biya, and other leaders use tactics including elections to cement their long rule, experts say.

“The spirit of Lumumba that is echoing through Morocco and the continent is a timely reminder that we must resist selling out ...

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has shaken geopolitics in the Horn of Africa and put the territory back in the spotlight ...