While the Sahel burns and West African democracies wobble, Senegal is quietly building something different — a gold sector that has grown from a minor footnote to a major driver of national export revenue in less than a decade. Production in 2025 reached 10.4 tonnes, cementing gold as the country’s primary mineral resource and attracting […]
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa launched Operation Prosper in February 2026 — a military deployment targeting the gang-ridden, crime-scarred townships of Cape Town and surrounding provinces. Three months on, the operation has produced modest results, sparked fierce debate about civil liberties, and exposed the deep structural failures that have allowed organised crime to take root
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Burkina Faso has long been one of the world’s most overlooked crises. A country of roughly 23 million people, it has been caught in a grinding conflict involving jihadist insurgents, government forces, and community militias that has defied easy solution. Now a major new Human Rights Watch report has laid out in damning detail the
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In the 40-year rule of President Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan military has rarely been a place where anyone answers for corruption — least of all its senior generals. But in late March 2026, something remarkable happened: the army chief himself ordered the detention of up to 20 senior officers, including two major generals, on accusations
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Benin is heading into one of its most consequential presidential elections in years — and its main opposition is in disarray. With just days left before polls open on April 12th, the political landscape in this West African nation has been dramatically reshaped by court rulings, electoral exclusions, and a popular backlash that has filled
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Revolutionary CRISPR-based sickle cell therapies are raising unprecedented hope across Africa — the continent that carries 85 percent of the global disease burden — even as the $2.2 million price tag places cures forever out of reach for most patients.
More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso since 2023 in attacks by both jihadist insurgents and government security forces, according to a comprehensive Human Rights Watch report documenting an escalating humanitarian catastrophe.
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Kenya’s Lamu Port has recorded a staggering 974 percent increase in cargo throughput over the past year, transforming a chronically underutilized facility into a critical global shipping hub as the Strait of Hormuz becomes increasingly hazardous.
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Four children aged three and under were killed in a machete attack at a nursery school in Kampala’s Ggaba district on Thursday, in a brutal incident that has shocked Uganda and reignited debate about child safety and mental health.
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has called sweeping US sanctions “insults thrown in the face” of Kigali, as the peace agreement signed four months ago with DR Congo continues to unravel amid ongoing fighting in eastern Congo.
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The battle for Africa’s supermarket shelves is heating up in ways that are rewriting the rules of retail on the continent. A new in-depth analysis from The Africa Report reveals a retail landscape where global giants like France’s Carrefour and South Africa’s Shoprite are fighting hard to maintain their dominance — but where local champions
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and biggest oil producer, is now paying the highest gasoline pump prices on the entire continent — with costs surging by 65% in a matter of weeks. The dramatic spike, triggered by the knock-on effects of the escalating Middle East conflict on global oil markets, is squeezing households already battling the
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