African Union (AU) leaders have called on its member states to strengthen its response to obstacles impacting peace, security, stability and socio-economic development on the continent, while exercising fairness to achieve the organisation's goals, notes Legalbrief Africa. Against a complex and rapidly changing ... Read More

Burkina Faso has opened its first gold refinery, pushing ahead with plans to better organise the commercialisation of the precious metal in one of the continent's top producers, reports africanews. The west African nation is the continent's third ... Read More

The DRC will subject major mining companies to annual audits of subcontracting practices and compliance with local content requirements from 2027 as authorities step up efforts to increase business for Congolese-owned firms, the head of the country’s subcontracting regulator said ... Read More

Guinea-Bissau’s military junta has blocked former President Umaro Sissoco Embaló from returning to the country, saying security conditions are not in place for his planned arrival. Embaló, who has been living in exile in Morocco, said last week that he ... Read More

Rwanda had held preliminary discussions with some EU member states about potentially hosting facilities for migrants transferred from those countries, reports CNBC Africa. Two European Parliament lawmakers, Tineke Strik and Anna Strolenberg of the Greens/EFA and Volt groups, said ... Read More

A US cease-fire proposal to pause Sudan’s civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style partition in its current form, reports Internazionale. This is according to a top adviser to Sudan’s army-led authorities in some of the strongest criticism ... Read More

South African Inter­na­tional Rela­tions & Co-oper­a­tion Min­is­ter Ron­ald Lam­ola says US Ambas­sador Leo Brent Bozell III must ‘get out of the kit­chen’ if he no longer believes in dip­lo­matic engage­ments with Pre­toria. Deplor­ing Bozell’s ‘undip­lo­matic con­duct’ and inter­fer­ence in South ... Read More

Ethiopia and Eritrea have severed diplomatic relations as renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia raises fears of a wider regional conflict, reports BBC News. Ethiopia announced that it was closing its embassy in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and ordered 10 Eritrean ... Read More

Somalia will not accept Israeli presence in the country ‘under any circumstances’ and will resist any attempts to be pulled into the Middle East’s crises, its President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told Al Jazeera. Mohamud said Israel was planning to establish ... Read More

Controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is implicated in alleged money laundering of more than R800m in South Africa (SA), died on Wednesday when his helicopter crashed, killing his wife, two passengers and two pilots. News24’s sister publication Rapport reported ... Read More

Algerian lawmakers have adopted a law imposing the death penalty on convicted forest arsonists, after deadly wildfires ripped through swathes of the country in recent weeks. The Citizen reports that the official death toll from the blazes, which swept through ... Read More

After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war, writes political analyst Cameron Hudson in an Al Jazeera analysis. ‘This past week, it may have inadvertently backed itself into a diplomatic ... Read More

A judgment by Zambia’s High Court, and the state’s response to it, are important because they show the growing struggle in that country about adherence to the rule of law, according to Carmel Rickard. In her latest A Matter of ... Read More

‘The consequences of non-compliance with the relevant laws make any exercise by the Authority in respect to import licences null and void.’  Judge Inyang Ekwo of the Nigerian Federal High Court, ordering the petroleum regulator to continue issuing fuel import licences  ... Read More

‘Evil triumphs through the inaction of those who could have acted and the indifference of those who should have known better.’  Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia     Read More

The Great Rift Valley in Africa, which  stretches across the eastern side of the continent, is a massive 6000km-long trench system featuring deep lakes, volcanoes and steep escarpments   Read More