Boko Haram is taking advantage of the poverty and food insecurity in northern Nigeria to stage a comeback.

The state of emergency may have ended the overt protest movement in Ethiopia, but sectarian tensions remain, and it’s only a matter of time before they rise to the surface once again.

Beneath the apparent apathy toward the president’s well-being lies a complex power struggle between Nigeria’s north and south.

There are several conclusions that can be drawn from the global health response to the Zika and Ebola epidemics.

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has been in London for medical treatment for a month now. Back home, rumors are swirling as the Nigerian government grapples with a worsening economic outlook.

A simmering political crisis in the DRC risks civil war and disintegration in the long-suffering African state.

This backgrounder gauges the success of the African Charter in boosting standards of living in Africa.

A failure to tackle the root causes of underdevelopment could spark a new wave of violence in the Niger Delta.

As the regime of Joseph Kabila heads towards its last year in power, a neighboring head of state has just survived provoking a constitutional crisis in order to avoid stepping down. Does Burundi's constitutional seizure foreshadow an electoral crisis next year in its giant neighbor?

A brief overview of the key economic and geopolitical risk factors in Burkina Faso.