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A fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon has raised cautious international hopes for a broader diplomatic breakthrough involving Iran and the United States, as regional powers intensify efforts to prevent the Middle East from sliding deeper into conflict. The agreement, announced

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s high-stakes visit to Moscow is rapidly emerging as more than a diplomatic mission — it is becoming a defining geopolitical statement about where Tanzania intends to position itself in a world increasingly fractured by economic rivalry, shifting alliances,

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has used her state visit to Russia to position Tanzania at the centre of a rapidly changing global economic landscape, as Moscow and African nations intensify efforts to forge new alliances beyond traditional Western partnerships. In high-level talks

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have pledged to significantly expand economic and strategic cooperation between their countries during high-level talks in Moscow, marking a major diplomatic moment that reflects Africa’s growing geopolitical importance in an increasingly competitive

French President Emmanuel Macron has praised what he described as an “extraordinary” relationship between France and Rwanda during a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in a powerful display of reconciliation between two nations once divided by one of

Senegal has entered a new phase of political uncertainty after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced a fresh cabinet reshuffle that includes allies from within his administration and selected figures linked to the camp of former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who has declared

Veteran Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has intensified his legal battle against the state after asking the High Court to transfer his treason case to the Constitutional Court, raising fresh concerns over judicial independence and political tensions in Uganda. Besigye, one of

South Africa has reopened one of the most politically explosive scandals of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration after Parliament established a special committee to determine whether there are legal grounds to remove him from office over the controversial Phala Phala farm affair. The

Nearly six decades after Tanzania’s founding leader Mwalimu Julius Nyerere made a landmark visit to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, President Samia Suluhu Hassan is preparing to return Tanzania to the centre of a historic diplomatic relationship