Gunmen armed with automatic weapons stormed two schools in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State in the early hours of Tuesday, kidnapping more than 50 schoolchildren and at least seven teachers in a coordinated double raid that has stunned the region and reignited debate about the government’s ability to protect civilians in areas still reeling from more […]
In a move that has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, Africa, and the wider international community, Somaliland has announced it will open an embassy in Jerusalem — making it the first and only country in the world to establish formal diplomatic representation in the contested city as Israel’s capital. The announcement, confirmed by Somaliland’s
Kampala, Uganda — In a striking illustration of how seriously Uganda is taking its Ebola response, health authorities have introduced a ban on handshakes as part of a broader package of preventive measures against the Bundibugyo Ebola strain that has now spread beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda. The announcement, made public on
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Harare, Zimbabwe — A prominent human rights monitoring organisation has issued a stark warning about the state of civic and political freedoms in Zimbabwe, documenting what it describes as a systematic deterioration in the human rights climate since the beginning of 2026. The report, published on May 18, identifies a pattern of increasing suppression targeting
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Abuja, Nigeria — A Federal High Court ruling issued in the third week of May has ignited a fierce public debate about the boundaries of civic freedom in Africa largest democracy, with rights groups warning the decision could be used to silence critical voices across the political spectrum. The ruling, the specifics of which are
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Bamako, Mali — When Assimi Goita seized power in Mali for the second time in less than two years, international mediators responded with the standard toolkit of condemnations, suspended aid programmes, and demands for a return to constitutional order. More than three years on, Goita is still in charge, and he appears more entrenched than
Aliko Dangote, Africa wealthiest individual and the continent most prominent industrialist, has delivered one of the starkest warnings yet about the nature of Africa financial relationship with China, arguing in an interview published on May 18 that Chinese lenders win in Africa not because of superior technology or better goods, but because they have mastered
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Africa is home to the world’s largest digital connectivity gap, with hundreds of millions of people still lacking access to reliable internet services, and the continent’s technology leaders are warning that without urgent action, this divide risks entrenching existing inequalities and leaving Africa behind in an increasingly digitised global economy. The numbers are stark. While
Across the African continent, millions of people face a deepening food security crisis driven by an alarming convergence of extreme weather events, lingering armed conflicts, and persistent economic pressures that have pushed staple food prices to multi-year highs in several regions. The Sahel’s traditional lean season, typically a difficult but manageable period for millions of
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From the cobalt fields of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the copperbelt of Zambia and Zimbabwe’s lithium deposits, Africa finds itself at the centre of a global scramble that it did not choose but cannot afford to ignore. The transition to clean energy technologies — electric vehicles, battery storage, solar panels, wind turbines —
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Every morning in Lagos markets, thousands of traders sell products that appear, at first glance, to be what they claim: name-brand pharmaceuticals, household cleaners, motor oils, food items bearing the logos of well-known manufacturers. But a significant proportion of these goods are elaborate fakes — counterfeits produced in unregulated facilities and designed to look so
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In a move that has reverberated across the continent, Botswana’s High Court has struck down legislation that criminalised same-sex relations between consenting adults — making Botswana one of a growing number of African nations to reconsider colonial-era laws that have long been used to marginalise sexual minorities. The ruling, which represents a significant shift in
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