In Namibia, beef is more than food. It is culture, trade and income all at once. The Namibia cattle disease outbreak, a foot-and-mouth epidemic first confirmed on 23 September 2026, is now putting all three under strain. From Karasburg to the Zambezi Veterinary officials found the first case on a commercial farm in the Karasburg […]
Inside the Cape Town conference halls, deals were on the agenda. Outside, a very different message rang out. The African Energy Week protests on Tuesday brought climate campaigners onto the pavement, demanding an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent. “Africa Exploitation Week” Activists from Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion picketed the […]
A new Amnesty International report has put Morocco’s treatment of reporters back under the spotlight. The Moroccan journalists surveillance Amnesty report 2026 draws on a whistleblower’s testimony and on people who say they were watched for years, claims Rabat has long denied. “I Was Surveilled Not Because of One Article” Omar Radi, a journalist now […]
Africa is about to start grading its own homework. The African Union Africa Credit Rating Agency launch 2026 takes place today in Port Louis, Mauritius, where the new body will be based, and it closes out a project African leaders first backed in 2018. Why Africa Wants Its Own Voice For years, many African governments […]
Few phrases make economists sit up like “second-round effects.” Tuesday’s South Africa second-round inflation risks central bank warning was unusually direct about what could come next. The South African Reserve Bank said the danger of broader price pressure is rising as the oil shock drags on and new shocks appear. What “Second-Round” Actually Means by […]
Few election wins in Malawi felt as dramatic as last September’s. Peter Mutharika health concerns and Malawi succession crisis 2026 are now the talk from Lilongwe offices to Blantyre minibus ranks. It is a question many people are asking quietly and some are starting to ask aloud. An Unlikely Return at 85 Malawians went to […]
Five thousand years on, the tombs of Egypt’s earliest rulers are still giving up secrets. New research suggests ancient Egyptian servants sacrificed with their kings may finally have the physical proof scholars have chased for a century. Most of us picture Egypt’s glory in towering pyramids, so the story beneath the sand comes as a […]
When the Tigray People’s Liberation Front walked out of its own capital, it sent a message across the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian rebel forces withdraw from Tigray capital Mekelle after weeks of fighting, leaving a city of hundreds of thousands to wonder what comes next. Residents have lived through this before, and few are celebrating. […]
Zimbabwe woke on Thursday to news that one of its loudest business personalities was gone. The Wicknell Chivayo and wife helicopter crash in Zimbabwe killed six people on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, and left the country trading shock, tributes and hard questions. What We Know About the Crash Police say the helicopter came down in […]
In South Africa, violence against women is no distant statistic. It plays out in homes, taxi ranks and workplaces every single day. Yet South African men fighting gender-based violence against women are growing in number, and they insist the burden cannot stay on women alone. A Crisis That Starts at Home Intimate partner violence is […]
Sit down at a Lagos wedding, an Addis Ababa family lunch or a Johannesburg braai, and you’ll understand something quickly: in Africa, food is how people say welcome. The list of popular African dishes gaining global recognition keeps getting longer, and the rest of the world is only now catching up to what the continent […]
Ten years ago at COP22 in Marrakech, the Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative was launched on African soil. Its 10th anniversary report, The State of African Agricultural Adaptation 2016–2026, finds that the African agricultural adaptation finance gap is wider than most people assume, and that broken connections between systems explain as much of it […]
ADDIS ABABA: The explosions in Addis Ababa Ethiopia October 2026 first came to light early on Thursday, when diplomatic sources told Reuters that blasts had been heard overnight in the capital. The reports have deepened fears that the fighting in the country’s north, which flared last week, is now reaching the seat of government. What […]
Badariyya, a new Hausa drama for Northern Nigerian audiences, launched in Abuja on 29 September. Its promise is simple: stories that look and sound like the lives of the people watching. The series brings together creatives from across the north, media partners and local collaborators. It is part of a wider storytelling initiative that will […]
A Ugandan TV journalist set to be crowned king of a traditional monarchy was due to take the throne of the Tooro Kingdom on Tuesday, 29 September. Prince Edward Rukidi Nyabongo, a longtime broadcaster and editor with Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, was chosen after the death of King Oyo Nyimba last month. The AP reported that […]
Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago used a keynote in Sandton on 28 September to set out South Africa economy challenges and opportunities against a shaky global backdrop. He spoke at the third Forum on Africa & Geopolitics, hosted by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra), whose theme was “Imagining the World in 2040”. A […]
NAIROBI. Kenya remains among ten countries the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention considers at risk from the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The list also includes Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Zambia. Where the warning comes from Africa […]
Over 55,000 Sudanese refugees have made their way across the border into Chad this year due to the increasing amount of violence, aerial strikes, and poor living conditions that have resulted in increased displacement. According to the UN’s refugee agency, over 400 people have been crossing the border each day in the past week alone […]
In recent murders of 10 women in the Ekurhuleni area of South Africa, police have started to investigate the murders after another woman was found dead in Tembisa on September 26. There is fear of a serial killer, but the police have pointed out that they have not been able to establish a link between […]
Torrential rains have brought about widespread flash floods in some parts of western and southwestern Libya, where homes are being flooded and roads damaged as emergency teams are working for the rescue of people and restoration of facilities. The worst flash flooding is seen in towns like Mizda, Nesma, Al-Shqiqah, Bani Walid, among others, due […]