Nigeria's 1 billion Dangote Refinery, inaugurated in May 2023 in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, has become the continent's most significant bet on energy sovereignty. With a refining capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, it is the world's largest single-train refinery — a distinction that has shifted the calculus of West Africa's reliance on […]
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When Senegal’s parliament approved one of Africa’s most punitive anti-LGBT laws in March 2026, advocates for people living with HIV feared the worst. Their concerns are now being confirmed. New data suggests that access to testing, treatment, and prevention services for vulnerable populations has collapsed, threatening to unravel one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most celebrated HIV
In the cold waters off the coast of South Africa, a species that has survived for millions of years is dying at a rate that alarms even the most seasoned conservationists. More than 62,000 African penguins starved to death in South Africa’s major breeding colonies over the past year — the latest in a decades-long
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As the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates into what analysts are now calling the most consequential geopolitical crisis of the decade, African nations are discovering they are far from immune — even from a war being fought thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. The ripple effects of the Iran conflict are being
Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has publicly declared that democracy is simply not suited to his country, telling journalists that citizens should abandon expectations of representative governance while his regime focuses on what he calls “security and sovereignty.” The blunt remarks, made during a press conference in Ouagadougou in early April 2026, represent
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In one of the most shocking crimes to hit Uganda’s capital in recent years, a man disguised as a parent infiltrated a nursery school in Kampala and fatally stabbed four children aged three and under with a machete before fleeing the scene. The attack occurred at a pre-primary facility in Kampala on the afternoon of
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