Ask most travellers to name an African holiday and you will hear safari, Zanzibar, Cape Town or the pyramids. Yet the Lesser-Known Lakes and Islands in Africa offer something those famous names can no longer promise: quiet water, local hospitality and the feeling that you found the place yourself. If you are tired of crowds […]
Britain has sharply raised the stakes with one of Africa’s most isolated governments. The UK Eritrean migrant policy took a harder turn on Thursday, when Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood warned she would block all Eritreans from entering the country unless Asmara agrees to take back more of its nationals. What London Has Announced The Home […]
The American currency refuses to cool off. The US dollar 18-month high is back in focus this week, and for African importers, borrowers and households, a strong dollar is never just a Wall Street story. What is pushing the dollar up The dollar index sat at 102.14 on Monday, not far from the 18-month peak […]
Ask most people to name an African monument and you will hear the same answer: the pyramids of Giza. Yet Africa’s Hidden Heritage Sites tell a far bigger story, one that runs from the cradle of humanity to medieval empires whose wealth stunned the world. Many of these places barely appear on tourist maps, and […]
South Africa has a new Nobel laureate, and she is 85. The Navi Pillay Nobel Peace Prize announcement came on Friday in Oslo, where the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the former UN human rights chief for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Al Jazeera reports she is the fifth South African to win […]
Eritrea has asked the world’s top diplomatic body to step in as tensions with Ethiopia edge toward open war. The call for Eritrea UN intervention in Ethiopia standoff came on Saturday, when Foreign Minister Osman Saleh wrote to the Security Council and urged it to take measures to deter Addis Ababa after what he called […]
A US judge has ordered the return of Ahmed Soliman, the Egyptian deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a ruling that could shake up Washington’s controversial third-country deportation deals. Who is Ahmed Soliman? Soliman is 30 and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, after his family moved from Egypt when he was four. In October 2025, an […]
Zambia has just won a negotiation that many African capitals will be watching closely. The Zambia US health deal will bring $1.5 billion in American funding over five years, and it is set to be signed after Lusaka pushed Washington to drop its most contested demands. Why the talks stalled Washington has been signing one-on-one […]
Walk into a restaurant in London, Houston or Toronto today and there is a good chance someone at the next table is arguing over jollof. Meet the Nigerian dishes putting Nigerian cuisine on global map, one plate and one pot at a time. Some are household names across West Africa, others are only now finding […]
Fuel prices have a way of finding every household, from Lagos to Lusaka. The message from London is blunt: global oil stockpile buffer nearly depleted amid supply concerns, and the market has little left to fall back on. Executives made the warning at the Energy Intelligence Forum this week. How Thin Is the Cushion? Saudi […]
Zimbabwe’s railways once carried the country’s wealth, and a new deal could bring them back to work. The Tsingshan Zimbabwe steel rail partnership to boost haulage capacity was signed this week between Dinson Steel and the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ). It could change how coal and steel move across the country. What Has Been […]
Few moments in travel compare to meeting a wild gorilla’s gaze across a patch of forest. Here are the best gorilla trekking destinations in Africa for wildlife safaris, from misty volcanic slopes to remote Congo Basin rainforest. Four countries share these great apes, and where you go decides almost everything: the species you meet, what […]
From the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and the plains of southern Africa, millions of people depend on trees that outsiders rarely notice. The UN call to action on dryland forests, launched in Rome on October 2, asks the world to finally treat those trees as a global priority. It was unveiled by the […]
With the upcoming 18th BRICS Summit being held in New Delhi from September 12 to 13, the BRICS club now has more nations from both the African and Middle Eastern regions that have brought in a whole new perspective to the global discussion surrounding the economy. Among the nations in BRICS from these regions are […]
The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a new approach to world maps that will give a better representation of the size of Africa, making this a significant win for the continent-wide #CorrectTheMap campaign. The resolution sponsored by Togo and supported by other African Union member states was voted on September 4 in favor with […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo has just made history in African telecoms. Airtel Africa, working with Starlink, has switched on the continent’s first commercial satellite-to-phone service, letting ordinary smartphones send texts and WhatsApp messages without a mobile tower anywhere nearby. For South Africans who deal with load shedding and patchy rural signal on a regular […]
A Pardon has changed the trajectory of a diplomatic dispute that had strained Mali-France relations for more than a year. The case of Yann Vézilier had hung over an already battered relationship between Mali and France. On August 13, 2026, it took an unexpected turn when Mali’s military ruler, Président Assimi Goïta, granted the French […]
DR Congo Ebola Crisis: There’s a real chance the Ebola outbreak tearing through the Democratic Republic of Congo could become the worst the world has ever seen. That’s not exaggeration, it’s the warning coming straight from the World Health Organization , as the virus pushes into a sixth province and case numbers climb faster than […]
Gaza ceasefire talks are currently under threat due to ongoing military activities, the unresolved issue of disarmament of Hamas, and increased regional tensions. Mediators such as Egypt, Qatar, and others have been trying their best to reconcile both Israel and Hamas. Nevertheless, mistrust and conflicting expectations about the future of the situation have proved to […]
Sudan conflict has forced more than 8 million school-aged children out of classrooms as the country’s civil war enters its fourth year, according to the United Nations. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed disclosed this at an informal UN Security Council meeting on the protection of education in Sudan. Mohammed revealed that the ongoing civil war […]