A landmark Human Rights Watch investigation published this week has identified the United Arab Emirates as a major logistical transit point for foreign fighters and mercenaries being deployed into Sudan’s grinding civil war, lending new weight to long-standing accusations that the Gulf state is deepening its involvement in the conflict through private military contractors. The […]
Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has suspended the export of all livestock in what officials describe as a measure to ensure the availability of animals on the domestic market and protect consumers from soaring meat prices ahead of the Eid al-Adha festivities. The ban, which took effect immediately, has been broadly welcomed by ordinary consumers
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Along the muddy creeks and tidal flats surrounding Freetown, Sierra Leone’s oyster harvesters are watching their way of life vanish. The mangroves that once sheltered juvenile fish, filtered coastal waters and protected shoreline communities from storm surges are being cleared faster than they can regenerate. And with them go the livelihoods of thousands of Sierra
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Guinea stands at a pivotal moment as it prepares for elections that could mark the end of a prolonged military transition period and the restoration of constitutional order in one of West Africa’s most politically turbulent nations. The vote, scheduled for May, represents the most consequential test of democratic governance in the country since the
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In a move that could reshape the narrative of continental integration, the Republic of Congo has announced it will abolish visa requirements for all African citizens entering its territory from January 1, 2027. The announcement, widely welcomed across the region, positions the Central African nation at the forefront of a quiet revolution in how Africans
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In the crowded retail corridors of Nairobi, two Kenyan supermarket chains are fighting a battle that few outside East Africa are watching closely — but whose outcome could define how the region’s consumers shop for generations. Naivas and Quickmart, once family-run operations built on the back of Kenya’s expanding middle class, are now in a
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When Felix Tshisekedi secured Africa’s richest job in 2019, few predicted he would still be the undisputed centre of Congolese power seven years later — or that he would be engineering one of the continent’s most consequential constitutional gambits while the world watched largely passively. Yet here we are. Sources in Kinshasa and Washington alike
When Romuald Wadagni was sworn in as Benin’s new president following a landslide electoral victory, one of the first signals he sent was not directed at a major power or an international institution. It was aimed at Niamey. Within days of taking office, Benin’s new leadership began quietly reaching out to Niger’s military government —
Some of East Africa’s most ambitious energy infrastructure projects are facing delays that threaten to undermine the economic gains the region has built over the past decade. Hydropower plants are operating below capacity due to declining water levels. Geothermal expansion is progressing more slowly than anticipated. And the window of opportunity to lock in the
Introduction A road in western Uganda became the site of a tragic encounter between humans and wildlife this week, when three people were killed after their vehicle struck an elephant on a highway running through a region where expanding human settlement and wildlife migration corridors increasingly intersect — a collision course that has become one
Introduction Ghana President John Dramani Mahama has declared that the International Monetary Fund programme currently under negotiation must be the last his nation ever needs, marking an ambitious push toward lasting economic self-sufficiency in West Africa second-largest economy. The announcement came as Ghana navigates intense pressure from rising global commodity prices, a depreciating cedi, and
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Malawi is running out of fuel — and running out of patience. The crisis that has gripped the country in recent weeks, causing shortages at filling stations, pushing transport costs higher, and forcing the government into emergency procurement, is not simply a supply chain problem. It is the visible manifestation of deeper structural weaknesses in
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