South Africa has been uninvited from the G7 summit scheduled to take place in France, in a move that has sent shockwaves through African diplomatic circles and ignited a fierce debate about the treatment of the continent at the world’s most powerful tables.
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# UAE and Saudi Arabia Vie for African Influence as Gulf Rivalry Intensifies The Gulf states are locked in a fierce geopolitical and economic struggle for influence across Africa, with the United Arab Emirates emerging as the continent’s single largest investor while Saudi Arabia scrambles to catch up — and the competition is reshaping the
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When South Africa’s top police officer is charged with corruption, you know the crisis in the country’s law enforcement institutions has reached a new and alarming threshold. The charges laid against the national police chief in March 2026 are not merely embarrassing for the service — they expose a rot that runs from the leadership
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While the guns of the Middle East war boom in the distance, a quieter competition is intensifying across Africa — one fought with investment contracts, port leases, and infrastructure deals rather than missiles. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are rapidly accelerating their economic footprints on the continent, seizing on regional instability to deepen
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When Iranian air strikes hit Dubai’s Jebel Ali port on March 1st, 2026 — just four days after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran — few anticipated that a sleepy Kenyan island would emerge as one of the conflict’s strangest beneficiaries. Thousands of high-end cars, originally destined for the UAE and
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Egypt has imposed a business curfew requiring shops, restaurants, and shopping malls to close by 9pm each night for an initial period of one month. On the surface, the measure — announced as part of a package of energy conservation measures — appears administrative. Look deeper, and it exposes a nation in the grip of
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Nigeria’s banking sector is undergoing its most consequential restructuring in years. The Central Bank’s 2026 recapitalisation programme — demanding that commercial banks boost their shareholders’ funds to levels competitive with regional and global peers — is sending ripples across West Africa’s largest economy and beyond. The exercise, which has set minimum capital thresholds designed to
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Kenya has attracted $3 billion in industrial investment deals, positioning itself as East Africa’s premier manufacturing hub.
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Morocco Is Positioning Itself as Africa’s Gateway to the Global Gaming Industry Morocco is making a calculated bet on the global gaming industry as part of its broader strategy to diversify the economy and attract a new generation of tech-savvy investors and tourists. With the Rabat Gaming Expo drawing thousands of visitors and international game
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India-Africa Summit Postponed as Ebola Outbreak Forces Continental Meeting Cancellation A high-profile India-Africa summit scheduled to bring together leaders from across the continent and New Delhi has been postponed indefinitely after the rapid spread of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made it logistically and diplomatically untenable to proceed. The decision, announced
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Fuel Prices Double in Six Months as Malawi’s Transport Sector Collapses Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, has effectively ground to a standstill as a fuel shortage that has seen petrol prices more than double in the past six months paralyse public transport, disrupt supply chains, and push the cost of basic goods beyond the reach of many
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