Africa’s cities are growing faster than anything the continent has seen before — and they are running out of space to accommodate it. The numbers are staggering. Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa, and Dar es Salaam are each adding hundreds of thousands of new residents every year. Projections suggest that by 2050, the continent will have added […]
Nairobi, Kenya — When African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa on May 25, 1963 to found the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the occasion became a symbol of continental liberation that many still call Africa Liberation Day. Sixty-three years later, as the continent marks Africa Day 2026, questions over what liberation really means still linger.
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In a historic political transition for West Africa, Romuald Wadagni — a former finance minister who became the face of Benin opposition to outgoing President Patrice Talon — was sworn in as Benin’s new president following an election widely watched across the continent. The transition marks the first peaceful transfer of power through the ballot
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The Middle East Crisis Is Taking a Billions-Dollar Toll on Africa — And the World Bank Is Alarmed The escalation of the Middle East conflict involving Iran, Israel, and their respective networks of allies has sent shockwaves through global commodity markets, and nowhere are those shockwaves being felt more acutely than in Africa. A new
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Royal Air Maroc Grounds Dozen Routes as Fuel Crisis Bites Into Africa’s Aviation Sector Royal Air Maroc, Morocco’s state-owned carrier and one of Africa’s most strategically important airlines, has announced the suspension of twelve international routes, the majority of them serving destinations in West and Central Africa, in a move that highlights the mounting pressure
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For years, the highways linking West Africa’s economic engines have carried more than goods. They have carried the lifeblood of millions of livelihoods — rice, cattle, fuel, textiles — moving from village to town to port with the predictability of tides. But across a stretch of the Sahel and beyond, that predictability has shattered. Armed
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An Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo was set on fire by angry demonstrators on Wednesday, destroying medical tents and setting back containment efforts in an outbreak that the World Health Organization has already classified as a global health emergency. The attack took place in Rwampara district, where residents clashed with
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Kenya’s transport sector returned to normal operations on Thursday after a five-day strike that had paralysed public transit across Nairobi and pushed several regional hubs to the edge of a public transport shutdown. The deal, reached after two nights of continuous negotiations, saw the government agree to a series of subsidies and price caps that
Senegal is once again at the centre of a political storm after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye moved to dismiss Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolve the cabinet entirely, marking the most dramatic escalation yet in a months-long power struggle that has tested the West African nation’s young democracy. The decree, announced on national television on
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Nigeria and Morocco have formally approached the United States government seeking financial support for a colossal infrastructure project that would lay a new natural gas pipeline along the Atlantic coast, running from Nigeria through five West African nations before reaching Morocco and ultimately connecting to European energy networks. The proposed pipeline — estimated to cost
The United States government has imposed sanctions on a senior Tanzanian police official, freezing any assets he holds under US jurisdiction and barring him from entering the country, in connection with what the State Department described as a “systematic campaign” of torture and intimidation against human rights defenders and opposition politicians in Tanzania. The targeted
Rabat, Morocco — Morocco is mounting an ambitious campaign to attract international tourists to the Western Sahara, presenting the disputed territory as a emerging destination for beach resorts, adventure tourism and cultural heritage. But critics say the push is less about tourism than about consolidating control over a territory that has been at the heart
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