In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these days to spot crises. Case in point: the broad swath of the continent known as the Sahel. There, in recent years, ...
In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. Waving the flags of the Indigenous Kanak people as ...
Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments. The ...
Africa, whose carbon emissions are negligible, is a victim of climate change but cannot stop it. Indeed, to get the continent’s citizens out of poverty, African economies will have to ...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which ...
The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March. Niger became ...
The Biden administration is launching a new initiative to end the war in Sudan—one of the world’s deadliest conflicts—with fresh peace talks following months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, according to five ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep. First off, we’re thrilled to announce we’re adding an ace new reporter to our team. Lili Pike has joined Foreign Policy as the newest ...
Recent weeks have brought news of the discovery and development of major oil and natural gas reserves from opposite sides of the African continent. According to regional leaders, these reserves ...
This year marks 30 years since the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when a Hutu-majority government and a privately owned radio station with close ties to the government colluded to murder ...