Walk into a nightclub in London, a wedding in Houston or a taxi in Seoul, and there’s a good chance the beat you hear started in Lagos, Johannesburg or Accra. African entertainment has moved from the margins to the main stage, and it got there on its own terms. Nobody handed the continent a seat […]
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 […]
Ask anyone to name the home of the world’s best distance runners and the answer comes fast: Kenya and Ethiopia. But African long-distance running has never really been a two-country story, and the last decade has made that harder to ignore. Runners from Uganda, Tanzania, Eritrea, Morocco, Namibia and Lesotho are now winning medals and […]
Mekelle has fallen again, but peace has not followed. The Ethiopia Tigray war escalation is now pulling the whole Horn of Africa into a dangerous guessing game about who will act next. A capital retaken, a war unfinished After nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, Ethiopian federal forces entered the Tigrayan capital as rebel groups, […]
Global markets ended the week on a nervous note, and the reasons reach well beyond Wall Street. The tech stocks AI spending worries story is back in the headlines, this time joined by bond yields that remain stubbornly high. The AI bill keeps growing For two years, investors rewarded any company that promised an AI […]
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 […]
Two presidents sat down in Pretoria this week with one question on the table: can the world’s youngest nation finally go to the polls? The talks centred on South Sudan elections, which are due in December, and on the fragile peace deal that has to hold until then. What the Two Leaders Discussed President Salva […]
Within the span of one human lifetime, the planet has lost a staggering share of its wild abundance. Yet across continents, scientists, rangers and ordinary villagers are racing to save crisis-hit wildlife, and the results so far suggest the story is far from over. Conservation is often told as a tale of loss, but a […]
For millions of African families, the weather now decides whether there will be a next meal. The Africa climate crisis is no longer a forecast about some distant future. It is already changing what farmers harvest, what traders charge and whether a household can afford to eat at all. Hunger Is Becoming an African Story […]
Investors in Johannesburg spent Thursday morning watching the clock rather than the screens. The South African rand was steady in early trade as the market waited for fresh manufacturing figures, helped by a muted dollar while investors weighed the chances of another US Federal Reserve rate hike this year. A Currency Barely Moving At 0549 […]
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 […]
Few people in Ghanaian fashion are as recognisable as Nana Akua Addo. Her name now dominates timelines for a painful reason: the Nana Akua Addo husband abuse allegations trending videos have set social media alive, and her husband has publicly denied wrongdoing. Two accounts, no verdict The couple’s marriage has run for about 14 years. […]
Kenya is racing to contain a virus it had spent months preparing for. As the Kenya first Ebola case contacts quarantined 2026 story unfolds, health officials say 10 people are in quarantine and 57 contacts have been listed. A journey nobody stopped The patient had lived in Congo for seven years. He fell ill there […]
Anyone who has watched a diesel generator roar through a mine’s fuel budget knows what unreliable power costs. According to a Trafigura executive, a new Congo miners power project $1 billion annual savings estimate could soon be within reach for the copper and cobalt belt. The line behind the number On 7 October in Kinshasa, […]
Seoul has just rolled out the red carpet for the Nile. On Thursday, the South Korea Egypt strategic partnership 2026 became official, as President Lee Jae Myung said the two countries had upgraded their ties during a summit with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Seoul. What was actually agreed Lee announced that formal talks on […]
Cape Town’s ghosts are back in the conversation, though the cricket should matter more this time. South Africa vs Australia begins in Durban on Friday, the first Test between the two sides on South African soil since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. It opens a three-match series. Eight Years On, the Noise Has Faded Back in […]
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 […]
Walk into almost any big European dressing room and you will hear an African accent. Here is the uncomfortable truth behind why African football struggles to develop strong domestic leagues: the continent has become brilliant at making footballers and much weaker at keeping the value those footballers create. Morocco’s run to the 2022 World Cup […]
