Luanda, Angola — In one of the most significant religious gatherings Africa has witnessed in years, Pope Leo XIV addressed tens of thousands of faithful in the town of Kilamba, on the outskirts of Angola’s capital Luanda, on Sunday, April 19, calling on the nation to build hope and move beyond the divisions left by […]
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Lagos, Nigeria — Nigeria’s airline industry is on the brink of collapse. As of today, April 20, 2026, the country’s major carriers have suspended operations, grounding millions of passengers and halting cargo movement across Africa’s largest economy. The decision, communicated in an official letter dated April 14 by the President of the Airline Operators of
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DRC’s Cobalt Gambit: Can the World’s Poorest Nation Move a Market It Cannot Fully Control? The Democratic Republic of Congo sits on roughly 70 percent of the world’s known cobalt reserves — a metal so essential to the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles, smartphones, and the broader green energy transition that the country’s output
Year Four of Sudan’s Civil War: The World’s Largest Humanitarian Catastrophe You’ve Never Heard Of In April 2023, two generals — General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces — turned their guns on each other, shattering whatever remained of Sudan’s fragile democratic transition.
Nairobi Opts for Stability Over IMF: A $1.5 Billion Gap the Country Will Have to Fill Alone In what analysts describe as a significant political gamble, the Kenyan government has quietly shelved negotiations for a new IMF programme, opting instead to manage the country’s mounting fiscal pressures through domestic borrowing and targeted spending cuts —
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South Africa’s Most Polarizing Politician Faces His Darkest Hour Julius Malema, the firebrand commander-in-chief of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has built a political career on confrontation — with the ruling ANC, with the white minority legacy, with capitalism itself. On April 16, 2026, a court in KuGompo City handed him a five-year prison
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A Pope’s Pilgrimage with Teeth: Leo XIV Demands Africa Keep Its Wealth When Pope Leo XIV stepped off his plane in Luanda on April 18, 2026, he was met not by red carpets alone, but by a city and a continent hungry for something harder to define: accountability. The first North American-born pontiff in history
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In the village of Jikandor, in the forested interior of northern Liberia, the river that has sustained fishing communities for generations has changed colour. Where the water once ran clear, it now carries a visible sheen of sediment and a chemical smell that locals say arrived with the gold miners. The fish are dying, says
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They were in a small recording studio in Khartoum, surrounded by electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and saxophones, writing lyrics and recording new music. Then the gunfire started. That was in April 2023, when the civil war between Sudan’s military government and the Rapid Support Forces erupted into open urban warfare in the capital. Three years
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Pope Leo XIV arrived in Angola on Saturday with a stark message for the oil-and-mineral-rich southern African nation: Africa’s wealth has been stolen for centuries, and it is time to break the cycle. In his first address to Angolan government authorities in Luanda, the pontiff — history’s first US-born pope — condemned what he called
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The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group have reached a new agreement to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, marking a tentative but significant step toward easing one of Africa’s longest-running humanitarian crises. The two sides announced the measures in a joint statement
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Three years of war in Sudan have produced what the United Nations and multiple international NGOs now describe as the worst humanitarian catastrophe on earth. Yet the world has largely looked away. On April 15, 2026, Sudan marked the fourth anniversary of the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah
