The President wants another investor to process more of Lake Magadi’s minerals locally but Tata’s suspension raises doubts ...

An eyewitness account of the announcement of the results at the Kenya Conference Centre On 29 December, Kivuitu asked each party to nominate two officials to work overnight with ECK staff on all the ...

A ‘national conversation’ that excludes the president's fiercest critics is unlikely to produce reconciliation. It may, ...

New York talks move to line-by-line drafting but leave the central contest over taxing rights and the OECD’s authority unresolved ...

A $450 million Louisiana fertiliser plant suggests OCP's lobbying has paid off. Washington now sees phosphate as strategic, ...

The downfall of Vice-President Emmanuel John Nchimbi is complete. Nchimbi will leave office on 4 September and has been ...

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The BRDC knows that chances of meaningful agreement are almost nil which is why they constantly refer to the Angolan president João Lourenço who took over from President Denis Sassou Nguesso of ...

23 March 1991: A motley group of about 100 fighters comprising Sierra Leonean dissidents (mostly former university students), Liberian fighters loyal to Charles Taylor, and a small number of mercenary ...

This highly original book is a detailed analysis of the everyday mechanisms of domination and repression that enable political regimes to function and to secure the submission of their populations. It ...

The rescue of an American hostage has bolstered the Haftars' standing in Washington's unity plan, days after Libya's rival ...