The Africa Bureau at the State Department has a new top official, Nick Checker. Unlike his recent predecessors who were career diplomats, he has been at State for only four months, having served for the previous decade as a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He spent part of last 2025 working in the White House as deputy executive secretary on the National Security Council (NSC) staff.

Interview - Interview with Sudanese anthropologist and African studies researcher Dr. Nisrin Elamin.

Interview - Interview with Ismail Adam, who grew up and was initially educated  in El-Fasher, Darfur, Sudan before studying science at Khartoum University in Sudan's capital.

Following a three-nation, five-day visit to west Africa, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman. From her office at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, Thomas-Greenfield talked about the ongoing crisis in Sudan, UN engagement with smaller, peaceful countries like Namibia and Africa's role on the Security Council, including raising climate issues.  She cites her stops in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she led the U.S. Presidenti

“No one can say they didn’t know.”

Guest Column - Donald Trump is bad news for Africa. He was tough on Africa in his first term, and after nine months, his second term is shaping up to be much worse.

GoL, US Embassy gives conflicting account of US$1.8b HPX secret deal

The Inter-Ministerial Concessions Committee (IMCC) on Saturday, July 5, successfully concluded negotiations with Ivanhoe Atlantic on a landmark Concession and Access Agreement that could transform Liberia's mining and rail infrastructure landscape for decades to come.

Opinion - In the face of Liberia's formidable journey towards economic recovery and sustainable development, the call for a collective commitment to generating more revenues through contractual agreements of the nation's resources for the benefit of all its citizens resonates more than ever.

President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is expected to join four leaders from the continent this week in the United States to discuss "commercial opportunities," thanks to an invitation from US President Donald Trump.

As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies efforts to curb China's global influence through tariffs and tough rhetoric, a storm is brewing over a controversial rail deal in Liberia involving Ivanhoe Atlantic (formerly HPX). The deal, critics claim, is being pushed by elements within the U.S. State Department in a manner that contradicts American strategic interests--potentially handing influence over critical mineral routes to Chinese-linked entities.

The country that President Donald Trump declared "nobody's ever heard of" during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world. Lesotho tops the list of 20 African nations upon which the White House has announced what it calls "reciprocal" tariffs, which add to the baseline imposed on every country.

It has come to my attention that there is an anonymous WhatsApp message in wide circulation titled, "Intelligence Agency Misleads Namibians and the President-Elect in Candidate Vetting." While it is clear that the message is politically motivated, I struggle to understand why these dark forces saw it fit to fabricate a harmful narrative that centres my involvement in something as serious as the vetting of ministerial candidates. The facts are as follows:

Analysis - It has been a little over a decade since 270 female students were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria by the extremist armed group Boko Haram. While, many of the girls escaped, were rescued or were released in exchanges, many others remain missing or feared dead.

Guest Column - Dr. Hage Gottfried Geingob served as the third president of Namibia from March 2015 until his death on February 4, 2024. Previously he served as the country's first Prime Minister after independence in 1990 and again from 2012 until his was sworn in as chief of state. Writing is his personal capacity, the author recites the key role played by the late president in establishing the country's democratic framework.

The Inspectorate Division at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has lamented huge losses in revenues to illicit mining in Liberia.

AllAfrica Executive Chair Amadou Mahtar Ba addressing the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi Misperceptions and miscommunication have driven centuries of media coverage of Africa. Historical records recount the first meeting between an…

Nearly 26 million people in war-torn Sudan are not getting enough to eat, according to the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA. Washington, DC — As starvation and desperation in Sudan continues to escalate after a year of conflict, U.S. Secretary of…

Interview - Following a three-nation, five-day visit to west Africa, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman. From her office at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, Thomas-Greenfield talked about the ongoing crisis in Sudan, UN engagement with smaller, peaceful countries like Namibia and Africa's role on the Security Council. She cites her stops in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she led the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the in

Interview - The United States this month holds the rotating presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. As she occupies the chair, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thoman Greenfield, has named food security and human rights as central issues she wants to promote. Late last week, AllAfrica's Tami Hultman talked to her about those priorities as they affect Africa.