South Sudan freed two associates of rebel leader Riek Machar from prison on Friday (November 2), advancing a deal to end almost five years of civil war.
Politics
South Sudan frees rebel chief's associates to back peace deal
- Friday, 02 November 2018 15:30
- Reuters
- East & Horn Africa
Nigeria: The PDP presidential fightback
- Monday, 29 October 2018 16:12
- Patrick Smith and Eromo Egbejule in Abuja
- West Africa
Trounced by Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, the PDP is set on winning the return match in 2019. Ahead of the primaries, The Africa Report talks to its leading contenders
Zimbabwe | Cuts in the time of cholera
- Monday, 29 October 2018 11:06
- Marshall Van Valen
- Southern Africa
With his late August inauguration behind him, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has a long list of worries ahead, from tetchy relations with Western governments and a grinding economic crisis to a September cholera outbreak.
Inside Malema’s revolution
- Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:32
- Crystal Orderson in Johannesburg and Cape Town
- Southern Africa

Demanding free education for all, radical land reform and an end to corruption, the Economic Freedom Fighters are winning over the youth. Next stop, national power?
Cameroon president Biya wins re-election in landslide victory
- Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:53
- Reuters
- West Africa

85-year-old Paul Biya won his seventh term in the midst of separatist violence in the west of the country.
Ethiopia | Is Abiy on the right track
- Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:17
- Tom Gardner in Addis Ababa
- Horn & East
Angola | Lourenço’s long road
- Thursday, 18 October 2018 09:38
- Paulo Guilherme Figueiredo and José Gama in Luanda
- Southern Africa
The Angolan president has dealt some big blows to the former ruling family and corrupt chief executives of state-owned entities, but he still has a long way to go to bring the country out of its economic crisis and attract the kind of investors who value transparency and ease of doing business