Various organisations, including human rights and migrant movements, marched in the Africa Day Solidarity Walk on Saturday.

In terms of per capita GDP, it's one of Africa's richest countries - but ... the danger is that the Gabonese people will merely move from one dictatorship to another, and nothing will remain ...

external about the state of South Africa at the end of a particularly shabby year, external. The Arab revolutions may rightly have dominated the African headlines, but the issues raised on the ...

The outbreak of violence and looting that followed ex-President Jacob Zuma’s arrest in South Africa, described by some as the country’s “darkest hour” since the end of apartheid ... the return of long ...

but it also set an important precedent in Africa for a peaceful transition of power after a decades-long dictatorship. The political turmoil in Gambia, was the result of what I call “the curse ...

The 22-year reign of one of Africa’s most eccentric and self-serving dictators came to an end last month when the president of Gambia — whose full title was His Excellency Sheikh Professor ...

The oil money never benefited the people of the country, as the dictator siphoned off huge amounts for his own use.

There are fewer and fewer outright dictatorships in Africa, but even as elections are ... Until he was ousted at the end of 2017, Mugabe was the ultimate presidential limpet.

The trial of former Chad dictator Hissène Habré is a historical milestone in African history that many hope signals an end to the days of impunity for authoritarian strongmen. Though the trial was ...

And now a South African court was seizing Nguema Obiang’s two high-end Cape Town villas and the Blue Shadow, the yacht that carries his jet-ski collection while he vacations on one of the other two.

after it was decided the son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea should face trial for corruption in France. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled Africa’s richest country per capita for ...