Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian recently visited Africa amid renewed efforts by the Islamic Republic to boost ties with all regions of the world. The top Iranian diplomat visited Mali, Tanzania and also Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.

African nations and Africans in the Diaspora are reviving their efforts to obtain reparations from colonial powers involved in the evil trans-Atlantic slave trade and other colonial-era atrocities committed centuries ago.

Russia's Foreign Minister recently visited Africa and said Moscow is currently developing a new foreign policy to counter fresh Western sanctions.

The people of Morocco recently protested against the visit of the Israeli Regime's Military Chief of Staff to the country, decrying the deepening of ties between the two sides following the normalization of relations under the Abraham Accords.

French President Emmanuel Macron recently said he wanted a review of his country’s military policies on the African continent and had asked his ministers and army chiefs to work on it.

The government of Eritrea has compelled the Israeli regime to close its embassy in the country after it rejected an ambassador appointed by the Tel Aviv regime.

At least African 37 migrants died recently when some 2,000 migrants tried to cross the high wire fence separating Spain's Moroccan enclave Melilla from the northern Moroccan border town of Nador.

The World Cartoon Festival on Applying Art and Culture in Silencing the Guns in Africa was held in Kenya on 21 September 2021. This international festival has been organized by the Embassy of Iran in Nairobi, Regional Center on Small Arms and Tehran International Studies and Research Institute.

China has overtaken the United States as the foreign power seen as having the biggest positive influence in Africa by young people. This is according to a survey across 15 major African countries.

The crisis worsened when the president announced in March this year that he was dissolving the parliament.