Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka wanted US President George Bush to prevail upon President Mwai Kibaki to step down in his favour at the last election, apparently on the grounds of ... Read more »

China's growing influence in the telecoms sector appears to be part of a government strategy to win bilateral financial support, confidential documents released by the ... Read more »

One of President Kibaki's most trusted aides told the US ambassador that the President had lots of information about Cabinet-level corruption but was reluctant to act. Read more »

There was definitely rigging in the December 27, 2007 general election but the American embassy could not decide who actually won the poll, according to the latest Wikileaks ... Read more »

A Kenyan banker sought refuge to the United States in 2006 citing threats on his life after he allegedly uncovered a multi-billion tax evasion scam at the now-closed Charterhouse ... Read more »

Leaked cables from whistle-blower site WikiLeaks have revealed statements made by internal security Minister John Michuki detailing the how possibility of a Raila Odinga presidency ... Read more »

A set of cables published by WikiLeaks provides insight into several issues that affected governance in Libya. Read more »

Senior Gabonese officials in the Bank of Central African States colluded to embezzle about U.S. $36 million from the reserves of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community ... Read more »

U.S Embassy cables dispatched from Conakry in 2008 suggested that former President Lansana Conte's son was heavily involved the the drugs trade, and that after a cocaine shipment ... Read more »

American diplomats in Sierra Leone praised President Ernest Bai Koroma in 2009 as having the capacity to overcome resistance in his own government to fight against the trade in ... Read more »

The controversial WikiLeaks cables, detailing classified communication between governments, continue to provide more details on international concerns for Liberia's shaky peace. Read more »

Tanzania has been pulled into the WikiLeaks web of revelations by a cable saying that anti-corruption boss Edward Hoseah told an American diplomat that his life was under threat ... Read more »

Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and ... Read more »

Indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has taken up to $9 billion (Shs20.7 trillion) oil money out of his country and stashed it in London banks. Read more »

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan offered Mr Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement package in an overseas haven if he stood down as Zimbabwe's president, leaked diplomatic ... Read more »

A U.S. embassy cable reveals that President Ernest Bai Koroma asked for American help to arrest a fugitive trafficker linked to a 2008 cocaine bust. Read more »

In a series of cables published by WikiLeaks, U.S. diplomats examine President Nikolas Sarkozy's new policies on Africa, and discuss whether they are run by the presidency or the ... Read more »

A ZANU-PF official has been exposed as giving information against President Mugabe and the party, justifying illegal economic sanctions and attacking the land reform programme ... Read more »

A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks gives an insight into how the United States ambassador to Senegal, Marcia S. Bernicat, challenged President Abdoulaye Wade on corruption in ... Read more »

Algeria's leaders suggested to a senior American official in 2008 that if Morocco approached Western Sahara's demand for independence with a more "elegant" touch, it might persuade ... Read more »

A series of cables dispatched from the American embassy in Accra between June 2007 and November 2009 reports on Ghana's efforts to combat drugs smuggling. Read more »

Tullow Oil vice-president for Africa has refuted allegations in one of the Wikileaks stories in which he is quoted accusing security minister Amama Mbabazi and energy minister ... Read more »

Cables released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks have shed light on matters of diplomacy and corruption in the Nigerian government. Read more »

The latest WikiLeaks disclosures include cables in which American diplomats report to Washington on the concerns of oil companies operating in Nigeria. One cable also records a ... Read more »

Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed criticism of political leaders by the U.S. ambassador, American condemnations of China's actions in Africa and the country's ... Read more »

The mystery surrounding Russian-made tanks that the government denied were destined for South Sudan in 2009 has been unravelled by a secret diplomatic cable. Read more »

The "brittle" regime of President President Isaias Afewerki was "one pistol shot away from implosion," the American ambassador to the country, Ambassador Ronald K. McMullen, ... Read more »

Several cables released by the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks show that American diplomats reported on alleged high-level corruption in the government. The cables also ... Read more »

The rise of President Jacob Zuma "at the same time that serious questions about his character were headline news, is an astonishing political achievement," the United States ... Read more »

This document provided by WikiLeaks details a meeting between South Africa's minister of International Relations and the U.S. ambassador to South Africa. Read more »

These WikiLeaks documents detail the United States' views on the situation in the country. Read more »