As the Fifa World Cup approaches, excitement should be filling the air across Africa. National teams such as South Africa’s Bafana Bafana, Ghana’s Black Stars, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Tunisia represent hope, unity and national pride. Yet, for millions of fans, a familiar cloud of anxiety looms — […]
The US-Israel war on Iran, which has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, is creating new opportunities for South Africa’s coal exporters as countries grapple with volatile oil prices, shipping disruptions and energy security concerns. But while coal producers stand to benefit from stronger prices and export demand, researchers warn that increased coal production and
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The 34-year-old became embroiled in the Islamist insurgency, which erupted nearly 20 years ago, and while the city's urban landscape is healing, few resources are devoted to those still suffering with the psychological scars of the conflict. When he was 14 years old, a coalition of Sharia courts seized power in Somalia and provided some
Photo: UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Democratic Republic of Congo's international friendly against Chile in Spain next week has been cancelled after authorities raised health concerns over the Ebola outbreak in the African nation. Juan Franco, mayor of the city of La Linea de la Concepcion, has signed a decree
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Two years before South Africa is due to co-host the African Nations Championship and four years before the 2030 World Cup arrives on its soil, a fresh wave of anti-foreigner violence has exposed the gulf between the country’s internationalist ambitions and the realities of its poorest neighbourhoods.
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The abduction of a retired Nigerian army general and his wife in the country’s northwest sent shockwaves through military and political circles in the final days of May 2026, prompting urgent questions about the state of internal security in a region that has seen an accelerating collapse in law and order over the past several
When a retired Nigerian army general and his wife were kidnapped in the country’s northwest in late 2025, the case exposed in microcosm the structural failures of Nigeria’s security architecture in the central belt u2014 and the political pressure that has shifted resources away from the regions that need them most.
A Sudan-based medical organisation has documented a single attack by fighters affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces that left 27 civilians dead, adding to a humanitarian toll that the United Nations has called one of the worst in the world today. The assault is the latest in a pattern of violence that has accompanied the
A new report has laid out what many Nigerians already knew but few had quantified with such precision: armed Fulani militants now number approximately 30,000 across the country, making them the single largest non-state armed actor operating on Nigerian territory — and a security challenge that successive governments have failed to contain. The figure, contained
Kenyan police have arrested girls on suspicion of arson following a devastating fire at a girls’ boarding school that killed sixteen students and left dozens more hospitalised. The tragedy at Utumishi Girls Secondary School in Gilgil has reignited a painful national conversation about the state of school safety standards in a country where dormitory fires
