DR Congos Endless War: Inside the M23 Rebellion Devastating Eastern Congo
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Saudi Arabia Eyes African Farmland as Food Security Drive Accelerates
Riyadh is accelerating a strategic push into African agricultural land, securing farming deals across the continent in a race to shore up food supplies as global supply chains grow more fragile and climate pressures mount on Gulf states. According to a report by African Business published this week, Saudi Arabian investors are in active negotiations
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Gabon’s Tiny Turtles Race Against Extinction as Funding for Protection Dries Up
Along Gabon’s 900-kilometre Atlantic coastline, where four species of sea turtles come to nest between October and March, a small band of eco-rangers are waging a battle against impossible odds. For every thousand hatchlings that scramble toward the sea, only one will survive to adulthood. Now, funding shortfalls are threatening to make those odds even
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Antimicrobial Resistance Is Killing Millions of Africans Each Year — And the World Is Not Paying Attention
While global health headlines focus on pandemic preparedness and disease outbreaks, a slower but far larger catastrophe is unfolding across Africa: antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is now killing more people on the continent than HIV, malaria, or tuberculosis individually, and the toll is climbing steeply. A feature published by France24 this week placed AMR squarely
Egypt’s Economy Under Siege: Business Curfews and Power Rationing as Regional War Takes Toll
Egypt is quietly implementing some of the most sweeping energy rationing measures in its modern history, as the knock-on effects of the Iran-Middle East conflict drive up fuel costs and expose the fragility of an economy that was already struggling under a mountain of debt. Starting in late March, the Egyptian government ordered shops and
South Africa’s G7 Snub: How Washington’s Pressure Drove Pretoria Off the Guest List
When South Africa’s presidency announced that France had withdrawn the country’s invitation to the G7 leaders’ summit in June, it set off a diplomatic firestorm that laid bare the pressures African nations increasingly face as great power competition intensifies on the continent. South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised economy and a member of the BRICS
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Nearly 5,000 South African Afrikaners Have Resettled in the United States Under Trump Refugee Programme
Nearly 5,000 white South Africans of Afrikaner descent have been resettled in the United States under a refugee programme specifically created for them by the Trump administration, according to official data released this week. The figure represents virtually the entire intake of the United States refugee programme for the current fiscal year, raising sharp questions
Kenya’s Private Sector Slips Back Into Contraction as Middle East Conflict Takes Toll
Kenya’s private sector slipped back into contraction in March 2026, the first time activity has shrunk since August 2025, as the fallout from the Middle East conflict hammered consumer demand and disrupted supply chains across the region. The downturn, measured by the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index, puts East Africa’s largest economy on a fragile footing
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Djibouti’s Guelleh Set for Sixth Term as Election Becomes “Masquerade”
Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh is all but certain to win a sixth consecutive presidential term in an election held on Friday, extending his near-three-decade rule over one of Africa’s most strategically vital nations. With his primary opponent a little-known figure from a party with no parliamentary seats, critics say the vote is less an
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