Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column, Compass, ...

The head of the US Africa Command says Africa remains a 'nexus theatre' from which Washington should not shift its gaze.

By eliminating Power Africa as part of its foreign aid crackdown, the Trump administration appears to be undercutting its own ...

Africa’s largest economies, Nigeria (14 percent) and South Africa (31 percent), were among those on Trump’s “reciprocal” ...

The U.S. government's imposition of steep tariffs on African nations signals the end of the AGOA trade deal, an initiative ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.