On your birthday, you shared your pictures online. A friend likes the post and comments “happy birthday”; they don’t send you a message or[…]

For years, West Africa has been trying to solve an electricity problem that no country can realistically solve alone. About 8 per cent of[…]

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Aliko Dangote is betting billions on a refinery that could change the way Africa’s fuel business works. The Nigerian billionaire’s Dangote Industries has unveiled[…]

When powerful countries find it increasingly difficult to move money through established international financial channels, they often look for another route. That is the[…]

Before copper or cobalt becomes part of a battery, a car, or another finished product, someone must bring it out of the ground. In[…]

It is the famous poem by Ethiopia’s Poet Laureate, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, that has lately come to represent the ideals of the Nile. In the[…]

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The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) may have come and gone. It produced some shocking results, different dramas, stunning goals, greater competitiveness,[…]

For 43 years, one of Uganda’s renowned tourist attraction sites, the Kidepo Valley National Park, existed without one of Africa’s most iconic animals. In[…]

Hakainde Hichilema has returned to Zambia’s State House for a second term, but the scale of his victory has done little to settle the[…]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a strong stand on its most important exports. On June 29, 2026, the government issued an order[…]

Terra Industries, an African defence-tech firm, is expanding its manufacturing footprint as demand for homegrown security solutions grows across the continent. With $52 million[…]

South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026, up from 32.7% in the first three months of the year.[…]

Plastic bags have long been part of everyday life across the Republic of Niger, carrying groceries from neighbourhood markets, wrapping food sold by roadside[…]

When Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Education, Julius Ogamba, appeared before the National Assembly on 16 July 2026, he admitted that the government owed public[…]

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Yet it remains the most expensive region[…]