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 […]
Saudi Arabia is accelerating agricultural investments in African nations, betting on the continent breadbaskets to secure food supplies as Middle East conflicts disrupt global supply chains.
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Addis Ababa, April 5, 2026 — New health agreements between the United States and several African nations have triggered a heated debate over whether Washington is using the promise of aid and investment to extract critical resources and sensitive health data from countries with limited bargaining power. The deals, announced in recent months as part
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The DRC is negotiating a deal with Washington to receive migrants expelled by the United States — a high-stakes geopolitical gamble trading deportation cooperation for American goodwill and investment access.
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MSF demands Gilead grant direct access to lenacapavir, the groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, warning the rollout excludes the world’s most vulnerable.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Médecins Sans Frontières has renewed its calls for pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences to allow humanitarian organizations direct access to lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug that has been hailed as one of the most significant biomedical breakthroughs in decades. Gilead has refused multiple requests from MSF to purchase the drug for
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MSF demands Gilead grant direct access to lenacapavir, the groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, warning the rollout excludes the world’s most vulnerable.
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Senegal has formally signed into law a bill that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations from five to ten years, in a move that human rights organisations have condemned as a catastrophic retreat from the principles of individual liberty and human dignity. The law, passed by the National Assembly in March with an
Dakar, Senegal — When President Bassirou Diomaye Faye signed the revised penal code into law on March 31, 2026, the change was striking in its severity. Same-sex relations, which were already criminalised under Senegal’s colonial-era penal code, now carry a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment — double the previous maximum. The law also extends
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When international technology companies needed real-world environments to test and refine the conversational abilities of their artificial intelligence models, they found something unexpected in Africa: a vast, multilingual, and underserved laboratory of human communication. Call centres across the continent — from Nairobi to Lagos, from Dakar to Casablanca — have become the unlikely proving grounds
