The Tsamiya-Kamba corridor will revive regional commerce, but jihadist expansion could quickly unravel the gains.

More ships are rounding the Cape, but ports, policy and strategy are not yet built to turn the surge into lasting gain.

Africa’s next food crisis may not begin on the farm, but in a distant shipping lane. With the Iran war, international attention has focused on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and related ...

Silencing the internet during unrest buys governments time, but corrodes the trust and economic foundations that stability ...

Pope Leo XIVth’s 10-day African tour, completed this week, was overshadowed by a running spat with US President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could ‘flip the script’ on decades of development ...

More displacement in the Lake Chad Basin is caused by climate disasters than by conflict, but the two are increasingly ...

Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria.

The political transition in Cotonou opens a window for regional de-escalation that the African Union should seize.

Resource bartering doesn’t deliver stability – it perpetuates institutional fragility and rarely builds public trust and ...