Tag: Diplomacy

China has big ambitions in Africa. Between 2000 and 2020, the economic superpower loaned African governments US$159 billion to build ...

For decades, African states have grappled with numerous interstate border disputes, especially in resource-rich regions. In east Africa, most of ...

Paris' defense minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying ...

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited Rabat on Thursday to reset his country's "strategic partnership" with Morocco despite criticism from ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez kicked off a visit to Morocco on Wednesday, on a trip aimed at mending ties ...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday during a visit to Zimbabwe that sanctions imposed by Western nations had brought the ...

With anti-France feelings running high in many of its former colonies in West Africa, Paris is being forced to retreat ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Eritrea on Thursday for a one-day surprise visit, the information ministry announced, as ...

Qatar is battling to host a peace meeting between the presidents of rivals DR Congo and Rwanda, even though a ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited neighboring Sudan on Thursday for meetings with army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, his first ...

Moroccan lawmakers on Monday voted unanimously to review ties with the European Parliament, accusing it of meddling after a resolution ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni agreed Monday to strengthen energy cooperation with Africa's top gas exporter Algeria, the latest European ...

South Africa said on Monday it was "friends" with Russia, as it hosted Russia's top diplomat for a visit that ...

Burkina Faso has asked France to move its troops out of the country within a month, according to a letter ...

Burkina Faso asked France to move its troops out of the country within a month, according to a diplomatic letter ...

Major Arab states boycotted a ministerial meeting hosted by Libya's interim government on Sunday, with just five of the Arab ...

Burkina Faso's military regime told France it wants its troops stationed in the country to leave within a month, the ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Saturday the histories of the United States and Africa were "intimately connected" by the "tragedy" ...

Italy is prepared to allow more Tunisians to reach its shores legally in exchange for greater efforts to cut irregular ...

The decades-long rivalry between North African Neighbours Morocco and Algeria has spilled onto the football pitch, leaving the Moroccan team ...

The French and German foreign ministers called Friday on Africa to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine, while pressing for deeper ...

President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not "ask forgiveness" from Algeria for French colonization but hopes to continue working ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Wednesday that Africa should have a greater voice in the UN Security Council and ...

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July departed the capital Bamako on Saturday, a day after being pardoned by ...

Equatorial Guinea's vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, has accused Spain of interference after Madrid opened a probe into top ...

The EU on Wednesday defended a trip by its top diplomat to Morocco, which has been linked, along with Qatar, ...

An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of ...

Morocco is hoping its unprecedented World Cup exploits can help it win friends and influence people, especially among an Arab ...

France and Morocco have a relaxed post-colonial relationship, but ties are still not without tensions that risk being exposed when ...