To fund his security state, the Russian President appears to be encouraging his siloviki to extract more resources from the business sector on the side.

The Financial Times is calling for a British pivot to Zimbabwe. Here’s why that’s unlikely to work, even if it was attempted.

Former Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin, on the outs with Putin, is trying to buy back his respectability by financing his own Kremlin-aligned think tank. It might be working.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election is shaping up to be the biggest match since George Foreman and Muhammad Ali clashed here in 1974.

Some might call it “dominance geopolitics”. Will the White House let it slide?

A word to China-in-Africa watchers: Stop the collective freak-out about Chinese masterminds spreading their brilliant ideology in Africa. It’s. Just. Not. Happening.

The best-off have lost a lot of money in the last year, a new study shows.

Several former colonies in East Africa are marking their Independence Days this month. Not that there’s much to celebrate.

A leading law professor’s reading suggests that there is more to Fisher vs. Texas than meets the eye.

Mikhail Prokhorov, under pressure by the security services, is selling all his businesses. Putin’s regime eats its own.