The countdown to Africa’s biggest football party is under way, and the opening rounds are almost done. CAF has published the AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers Matchday 1 and 2 fixtures and kick-off times, covering games from September 24 to October 6, 2026, the first stage of the journey for 48 nations. The qualifiers feature 12 […]
Ghana has switched on a nationwide alarm for anyone who sends, saves or spends money through a phone. The Ghana NCSAM 2026 digital finance security awareness campaign was officially launched on October 1, 2026, as digital financial services keep expanding across the country. Government officials and financial-sector leaders used the launch to push for closer […]
Aliko Dangote is taking his industrial empire east, and Africa wants to know how he does it. Dangote’s secret to business success in Africa 2026 looks surprisingly simple: find what governments cannot deliver, then build it at enormous scale. His companies now operate in at least 17 African countries, spanning cement, fertiliser, petrochemicals, logistics, ports […]
African leaders have a blunt message for the continent this week: stop waiting for outside cash. The inaugural Alamein Africa Forum, held over three days in the Mediterranean city of El-Alamein, put one theme above all others: unlock Africa’s domestic capital Egypt business summit 2026. More than 20 heads of state and government representatives showed […]
Every founder from Lagos to Nairobi knows the feeling of having a solid idea and an empty bank account. The good news is that business grants for African entrepreneurs in 2026 do exist, and some of them are backed by serious institutions. The catch is that they are competitive, and several big deadlines for this […]
Nollywood’s faith-based cinema has just had its loudest week in years. The Agbara Nla The Return N71 million box office record is now the talk of Nigerian cinemas, after the film pulled in more than N71 million from its preview screenings alone. That figure was reached before the film even opened officially. The Numbers Behind […]
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 […]
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 […]
Geologists are trekking through the Congolese bush with GPS units and tablets linked to servers thousands of kilometres away. This is the daily reality of KoBold Metals AI critical minerals Congo exploration, now unfolding around the remote southeastern town of Manono. The California-based company, founded in 2018 and backed by investors including Bill Gates and […]
A 20-year-old from Potchefstroom has just taken one of cricket’s most famous records away from the Caribbean. Lhuan-dre Pretorius 188 breaks Chris Gayle T20 record, and it happened on home soil in Bloemfontein on Friday, in a CSA T20 Challenge game between the Titans and the Knights. Not in the IPL, not under the floodlights […]
Peace on paper has rarely meant peace on the ground in the Horn of Africa, and this October the gap is hard to ignore. Headlines on Horn of Africa peace deals collapse Ethiopia Eritrea conflict fears keep piling up, and ordinary families carry the cost. A new Global Peace Index now labels the region a […]
Ask any market woman in Kumasi, Kampala or Kano how she started, and the answer is rarely a business plan. The challenges facing women entrepreneurs in Africa are real and stubborn, yet the continent still has some of the most entrepreneurial women anywhere on earth. A Story Centuries in the Making Women in business are […]
Walk through Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Abidjan today and you are standing inside the biggest demographic shift in human history. The link between rapid urbanization and security challenges in Africa is no longer a topic for conference panels alone, because it now decides who is safe, where violence lands, and how governments must protect their […]
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 […]
For decades, Africa has earned its living from what lies under the ground. Africa gaming industry growth and investment now point to a different kind of export, one that ships through an app store instead of a port. The people building it say the continent’s next big story may be written in code, art and […]
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 […]
The African Union has asked Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to step back before a bad situation grows into a regional one. Ethiopia Eritrea Egypt tensions escalated sharply this week, and the AU Commission said late Thursday that all three should avoid actions or statements that could make matters worse. It wants differences settled through established […]
Talks between London and Port Louis have started again, but the people at the centre of the dispute are running out of time. The Chagos Islands treaty delay has left elderly Chagossians wondering whether they will ever see the archipelago their families were forced to leave in the late 1960s and 1970s. Britain removed up […]
On September 29, 2026, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet approved a new set of terrorism designations covering the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa, alongside more than 90 organizations already designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government. The action represents Florida’s first implementation of a statutory […]