In Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, a cholera outbreak is exposing a governance vacuum that jihadist groups have methodically constructed over more than a decade, rendering public health response mechanisms structurally inoperable across territories where the Islamic State West Africa Province…
Kenya’s State Department for Foreign Affairs has announced a sweeping institutional reform agenda that positions economic diplomacy, digital transformation and governance accountability as the principal levers of its 2026/27 strategic cycle. The central question this agenda raises is not whether…
The African Union Commission and the Russian Federation used high-level consultations in Addis Ababa on 7 July to renew a joint push for permanent African representation on the United Nations Security Council, framing the continent’s exclusion as a “historical injustice”…
The complete withdrawal of French diplomatic personnel from Burkina Faso, confirmed by Paris late last week, marks the formal endpoint of a bilateral rupture that has been unfolding since September 2022 — when Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Ouagadougou…
Anti-immigrant protests sweeping South Africa have forced a pointed question onto the table: when a democratic state’s institutions fail to manage migration, does mob action fill the governance vacuum? Ndileka Mandela, granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, answered that question directly in…
The fatal shooting of a Ghanaian citizen in Cape Town on 29 June 2026 has produced a pointed institutional disagreement between South African law enforcement and Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, raising substantive questions about how West African governments gather…
On a Saturday in late June, a letter bearing the signature of Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani arrived at the offices of provincial authorities across Kinshasa and three neighbouring provinces. Its stated purpose was epidemiological: to prohibit “mass gatherings” in order…
A Deadline That Displaced Thousands At the Beitbridge border post in late June 2026, more than 8,000 foreign nationals were processed for repatriation in under two weeks. Many had not been formally deported; they had simply left, driven out by…
A Self-Imposed Deadline Exposes Institutional Fault Lines On 30 June 2026, a date manufactured by anti-immigration groups rather than any legislative or judicial process, South Africa confronted a stress test of its constitutional order. Organised movements, most prominently March and…
El Niño Threatens West African Food Security and Monetary Policy Space in 2027 The confirmed return of El Niño conditions is forcing central banks across sub-Saharan Africa to revise inflation forecasts upward and recalibrate rate-cutting cycles, with consequences that extend…
