[Independent (Kampala)] Africa has no shortage of evidence that polluted air is harming people's health, slowing economic growth and placing an increasing burden on cities already grappling with rapid urbanisation. What the continent lacks, experts say, is the investment and
[ISS] The 17 August meeting in Durban should turn shared history and economic interdependence into coordinated action against xenophobia.
Five years after the 2021 Ceuta crossing triggered a diplomatic rupture between Madrid and Rabat, 30 July’s deadly scenes in the tiny Spanish enclave thrust Morocco back to the centre of Europe’s migration debate. But Spain quietly resolved the crisis and most people returned.
It sent rocks and earth crashing on to those praying at an overnight service, the authorities say.
[Daba Finance] Dangote Petroleum Refinery has filed an initial public offering application with Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission, moving the company closer to a listing on the Nigerian Exchange. SEC Director-General Emomotimi Agama said the refinery's advisers are
What began as Nana Barwuah’s Princeton senior thesis on SME financing has evolved into Afrovest, a platform connecting high-growth African businesses with global investors and bringing together more than $100m in aggregate fundraising ambitions.
At a time when many question whether sustainable peace is still achievable, Liberia offers a quiet but powerful reminder that even the deepest wounds of conflict can heal.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- More than half of all cybercrimes reported across Africa are now AI-enabled, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has revealed, warning that digital attacks have rapidly evolved into an industrialized, borderless ecosystem that is
[Parliament of South Africa] The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Thoko Didiza, has called for stronger parliamentary cooperation across the African continent to advance Africa's Agenda 2063. She was addressing the opening of the 26th Conference of Speakers of National and
Disillusioned by decade-long criminal trials against corrupt elites, authorities are aggressively pursuing civil forfeiture. But recovering billions without securing convictions risks turning asset recovery into a substitute for justice.
[Leadership] The Economic Community of West African States Regional Competition Authority (ECOWAS-ERCA) has warned that price-fixing, market allocation and anti-competitive practices were undermining economic integration and driving up the cost of goods across West Africa.
[UN News] Breastfeeding rates are rising worldwide, but millions of mothers and families still lack the services and protection they need to feed their babies safely, the UN has warned.
[African Arguments] In mid-June of 2026, the two rival factions claiming to be Libya's official government agreed to a power sharing deal. In it, Prime Minister Abdul Dbeibah, the leader of the internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) based in Triopli in
Nigerian Richard Itoro is one of tens of thousands who have abandoned their lives in South Africa.
Ursula von der Leyen has called for action ahead of an urgent EU interior ministers meeting to discuss the issue.
TotalEnergies has launched a legal challenge against Nigeria’s tax authorities and the NNPC over a disputed N75.2bn tax assessment, saying it breaches a long-standing offshore project financing agreement.
[Africa Check] Africa's premier information integrity summit to take place in Nairobi in October 2026
After five years of issuances in yen and yuan, the bank returns to the dollar with a $1.5bn raise. Behind this major comeback lie a restored credit rating and a carefully calculated bet on timing.
[African Arguments] Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa's health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges translate into budget releases, functioning services and public accountability.
[Cosafa] The group stage draw for the CAF Women's Champions League | COSAFA Qualifier Botswana 2026 will take place in Gaborone on Tuesday, 3 August at 11h00 CAT (09h00 GMT) and will be broadcast live on CAF TV and COSAFA's YouTube channel.
The highway enters Western Sahara, a disputed territory that Morocco claims sovereignty over.
[Capital FM] For much of the past two years, debate around the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) has centred on risks. Exporters worry about rising compliance costs. Cooperatives fear the burden of collecting geolocation data from thousands of smallholder farmers.
[Daily News] Luanda -- PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has called on African countries to invest in specialised healthcare services to reduce treatment costs and curb the continent's reliance on overseas medical care, describing such an investment as a critical step toward the
The Zulu king, who controls KwaZulu-Natal, where most of the South African anti-immigrant protests are taking place, went to Zimbabwe to assure President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the people of the two nations were united and that third-party forces could not divide them.
[Ghanaian Times] In a teaching hospital in Kumasi, a young data analyst has already worked out how an AI triage tool could cut waiting times on the ward. In a market in Accra, a trader keeps records by hand that a simple model could turn into the credit history a bank would
There are concerns of a full-scale conflict once again as a peace deal has not been fully implemented.
