South Africa

South African leaders have consistently rejected U.S. efforts to punish African countries for nonalignment.

South Africa’s former president had the chance to launch a massive program of regional economic integration but failed to seize it.

Winter is here. And the country is facing its worst-ever energy crisis.

The xenophobic firebrand Nhlanhla “Lux” Mohlauli is courting poor Black voters by stoking hatred of foreigners. It’s working.

ANC leaders are letting Soviet nostalgia outweigh morality.

What Agnes Sithole’s case shows about South Africa’s progress and peril since apartheid ended.

The country could still achieve genuine racial justice after its moral giants have left the stage—but don’t count on the ANC government to lead the way. 

As civil war spreads, Kenya and the African Union are trying to broker a cease-fire.

The agreement is the most impressive thing to come out of the COP26 climate summit.

Capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination. African governments should abolish it.

BRICS may be a young institution, but it shouldn’t be underestimated.

Young people across the continent have been hit hard by the pandemic, lockdowns, and economic stagnation—but their protests have largely been ignored by elderly elites.

President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the violence is politically motivated, but it looks more like an uprising of the poor and unemployed.

Political chaos is worsening the third wave of the coronavirus.

The Emirati government should extradite the Gupta brothers. Sheltering them risks damaging its diplomatic and financial reputation.

By imprisoning a former president, the country has set an example for constitutional democracies across the world.

A disabled teenager’s killing underscores endemic police brutality.

The French president is seeking to project influence, build new alliances, repair old rifts, and defuse the immigration issue at home.