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Africa30 Apr
South Africa's AI Policy Stalls as Neighbors Move Ahead
Africa30 Apr
Russian Africa Corps Fighters Documented Defending Bamako Airport as Moscow Deepens Mali Footprint
Africa30 Apr
Mali Defence Minister Killed in JNIM Attack as Sahel Security Architecture Fractures
Africa30 Apr
Mali Junta Faces Existential Test as Defence Minister Killed in Coordinated Offensive
Africa30 Apr
Iran Condemns Attacks in Mali as Sahel Security Crisis Deepens
Africa30 Apr
CBN's New Transfer Fees Signal Nigeria's Long Game on Cashless Economy
Africa30 Apr
Colin Powell Reprises Credibility Role as 'Washington War Lies' Dispute Resurfaces
Africa30 Apr
Airtel Money's Kenya Bank Link Marks New Phase in Merchant Payments Competition
Africa29 Apr
Russian Africa Corps Begins Mali Withdrawal as Junta Reshapes Security Arrangement
Africa29 Apr
Kenya's Credit Reckoning: Nairobi Moves to Cap Risky Lending
Africa27 Apr
Russian Africa Corps Pulls Back From Mali as Weapons Haul From Islamists Emerges
Africa27 Apr
Sahel insurgencies target Russia's expanding Mali footprint
Africa27 Apr
Sabastian Sawe Breaks the Last Great Running Barrier—And Kenya Extends Its Distance Dynasty
Africa27 Apr
Nigeria's Aviation Fuel Squeeze: Dangote's Export Pivot Leaves Airlines Grounded
Africa27 Apr
The Architecture of Failure: What Mali's Military Struggle Reveals About African Security
Africa27 Apr
Mali Defence Minister Killed as Sahel Security Architecture Strains Under Coordinated Insurgent Wave
Africa27 Apr
Mali Defense Minister Sadio Camara Killed in Al-Qaeda Linked Attack Near Bamako
Africa27 Apr
Mali Defense Minister Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack on Bamako Residence
Africa27 Apr
Mali Junta Under Siege as Defence Minister Killed and Strategic City Falls
Africa27 Apr
Kenya's Sabastian Sawe breaks the marathon's final frontier
Africa27 Apr
Iran's Neutrality Red Line: Why Islamabad's Mediation Role Has Become a Diplomatic Flashpoint
Africa26 Apr
Russian Africa Corps Withdraws From Kidal After Mali Defense Minister Killed in Militant Offensive
Africa26 Apr
Russian Mercenaries Withdraw from Mali Base After Losses; Junta Launches Mass Arrests
Africa26 Apr
Russian Units Repel Militant Attack in Mali as Questions Mount Over Local Force Readiness
Africa26 Apr
Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour marathon barrier in London
Africa26 Apr
Sawe breaks marathon's last great barrier in 1:59:30 London masterclass
Africa26 Apr
Russia's Africa Corps Begins Pullback From Northern Mali After Deal With Tuareg Forces
Africa26 Apr
Russia Withdraws from Kidal Base, Abandoning Mali Junta to Tuareg Forces
Africa26 Apr
Nigeria's Digital Tax Net Tightens — Can Automation Keep Compliance Within Reach?
Africa26 Apr
Mali Defense Minister Reportedly Killed in Coordinated Strike Near Bamako
Africa26 Apr
Mali's Kidal Fighting Revives Central Question: Who Governes the Sahara's Heart?
Africa26 Apr
Mali Defense Minister's Family Killed in Coordinated Attack as JNIM Offensive Intensifies
Africa26 Apr
Kidal Falls: Mali's North Collapses as African Corps Negotiates Withdrawal
Africa26 Apr
Kidal and the Fractured Logic of Mali's Northern Front
Africa26 Apr
Al-Qaeda-Linked JNIM Seizes Key Cities in Mali Offensive, Escalating Sahel Conflict
Africa26 Apr
Iran Conducts Simultaneous Diplomatic Outreach to Cairo and Ankara
Africa26 Apr
Egypt Steps Into the Mediation Gap as Cairo Courts Tehran and Doha
Africa26 Apr
Helicopter Downed in Northern Mali as Azawad Forces Target Ex-Wagner Assets
Africa26 Apr
From the Niger Delta to the World: How Amara Uyanna Rewrote the Map for African Global Leaders
Africa25 Apr
Springboks to Face All Blacks in Extended Rugby Championship Format
Africa25 Apr
Reserve Bank Holds Rates at 7.75% as Inflation Nears Target Range
Africa25 Apr
South Africa Records 11 Million Tourist Arrivals in 2025
Africa25 Apr
Unemployment Rate Falls to 31.9% But Youth Joblessness Remains Critical
Africa25 Apr
Yoco Raises $180M Series D to Expand Across Africa
Africa25 Apr
Ramaphosa Announces Cabinet Reshuffle, Moves Economic Ministers
Africa25 Apr
Cape Town Luxury Property Market Defies National Trends
Africa25 Apr
Cape Town Restaurants Secure First Michelin Stars for South Africa
Africa25 Apr
Eskom Achieves Record 200 Days Without Loadshedding
Africa25 Apr
Hawks Arrest Five in Multi-Billion Rand Fossil Fuel Corruption Probe
Africa25 Apr
JSE All Share Index Hits Record High on Resources Rally
Africa25 Apr
Matric Pass Rate Improves to 82.1% But Mathematics Concerns Persist
Africa25 Apr
South African DevTool Startup mLab CodeTelligence Eyes Y Combinator After Seed Round
Africa25 Apr
NHI Implementation Timeline Pushed Back as Funding Gap Widens
Africa25 Apr
Platinum Price Slump Forces Sibanye-Stillwater Restructuring Plans
Africa25 Apr
Absa Accelerates Digital Pivot as Restructuring Costs Mount
Africa25 Apr
ANC's Davis Committee Recommends Gaza ICC Action, Signaling Foreign Policy Shift
Africa25 Apr
Opinion: BEE Reform Must Focus on Economic Growth, Not Just Ownership
Africa25 Apr
Black Coffee Announces Return to Coachella After Health Recovery
Africa25 Apr
South Africa Prepares for BRICS Presidency with Multipolar Finance Agenda
Africa25 Apr
Netanyahu Orders Lebanon Strikes as Regional Fault Lines Fracture Again
Africa25 Apr
Mali Faces Coordinated Offensive as Tuareg Separatists and Armed Groups Push Back Against Junta Control
Africa25 Apr
Mali's Northern Sovereignty Test as Azawad Flags Rise in Kidal
Africa25 Apr
Iran's Regional Calculus: What the April 25 Military Developments Signal for Gulf Security Architecture
Africa23 Apr
USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Group Heads for Middle East as Regional Tensions Simmer
Africa23 Apr
Trump Signals Diplomatic Pivot on Iran as US Reinforces Military Grouping in the Gulf
Africa23 Apr
Tanzania's Election Violence Reckoning: What the 500-Plus Death Toll Tells Us
Africa23 Apr
Somalia Blocks Israeli Ships From Bab al-Mandeb as Strait Tensions Escalate
Africa23 Apr
Russia's NtechLab: The Domestic Palantir Profiting From Surveillance Expansion
Africa23 Apr
Somalia Bans Israeli-Linked Ships From Strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait
Africa23 Apr
Somalia Closes Bab al-Mandab to Israeli Shipping in Escalating Red Sea Stand-Off
Africa23 Apr
Somalia Bars Israeli-Linked Vessels From Bab al-Mandab as Diplomatic Rift With Somaliland Deepens
Africa23 Apr
Somalia bars Israeli-linked vessels from Bab al-Mandab, citing Tel Aviv's Somaliland recognition
Africa23 Apr
Pope Leo XIV Visits Prison on Final Day of Africa Tour, Drawing Attention to Equatorial Guinea
Africa23 Apr
Kenya's Digital Banking Inflection Point: Absa's $23M Bet and M-TIBA's Strategic Retreat
Africa23 Apr
Kenyan Mercenary Captured by Ukrainian Forces Near Kupyansk
Africa23 Apr
Earth's Newest Crack: Scientists Trace A Massive Fault Line Through East Africa's Crust
Africa23 Apr
Equatorial Guinea's First Lady Wore a Dress With Her Own Portrait to Meet Pope Leo XIV. The Vatican Said Nothing.
Africa23 Apr
China's Africa Diplomacy Under Scrutiny as Taiwan Trip Blocked
Africa23 Apr
Africa's Diplomatic Tightrope: How Beijing's Pressure Cancelled Taiwan's Lai Ching-te's Continent Visit
Africa22 Apr
USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Group Signals Intensifying US Pressure on Iran as Regional Tensions Climb
Africa22 Apr
Trump Administration Weighs Sending Afghan Allies to DR Congo in Resettlement Rethink
Africa22 Apr
US Carrier Deployment Signals Readiness for Iran Operations as Strike Group Nears Arabian Sea
Africa22 Apr
UAE-Backed Colombian Mercenaries: How Foreign Fighters Entered Sudan's Civil War
Africa22 Apr
Tinubu Dismisses Finance Minister as Nigeria's Economic Pressure Mounts
Africa22 Apr
Tinubu Taps Fiscal Outsider Taiwo Oyedele to Steady Nigeria's Strained Finances
Africa22 Apr
Somalia Blocks Israeli-Linked Ships From Bab el-Mandeb — A Sovereignty Play Wrapped in Regional Rivalry
Africa22 Apr
South Africa and Lesotho Revive ID-Only Border Crossing as Thousands Await Amnesty
Africa22 Apr
Taiwan President Scraps Eswatini Visit, Citing Beijing's Coercion
Africa22 Apr
Somalia Bans Israeli Shipping Through Bab al-Mandeb, Escalating Red Sea Tensions
Africa22 Apr
Russian 'African Corps' Frees Two Geologists in Mali After Nearly Two Years of Captivity
Africa22 Apr
Pope Leo Condemns Conditions at Equatorial Guinea's Notorious Bata Prison During Africa Tour
Africa22 Apr
Pope Leo's Equatorial Guinea reckoning: A moral voice in Malabo
Africa22 Apr
Foreign Volunteers Reshaping Combat Dynamics on Ukraine's Eastern Front
Africa22 Apr
Phone Data Points to Colombian Mercenaries and UAE Role in Sudan's RSF, Research Group Says
Africa22 Apr
Algeria Sentences Goncourt Winner Kamel Daoud to Three Years Over Novel 'Houris'
Africa21 Apr
Taiwan President's Africa Trip Scrapped at the Last Hour as Beijing's Pressure Mounts
Africa21 Apr
Tigray Party's Pre-War Administration Gambit Tests Ethiopia's Fragile Peace
Africa21 Apr
Russian Military Bloggers Report Settlement Liberation in Kharkiv Border Area
Africa21 Apr
South Africa's Police Chief Charged Over Controversial Health Contract
Africa21 Apr
Pope Leo's Africa Tour Ends in Malabo With a Rebuke to Global Leadership
Africa21 Apr
Nigeria Charges Six With Treason Over Alleged Coup Against Tinubu
Africa21 Apr
Nigeria Charges Six Including Retired General in Alleged Coup Plot
Africa21 Apr
Pakistan Weapons Flow to Haftar's Libya Highlights Gulf States' Expanding African Foothold
Africa21 Apr
Iran Refuses Pakistan Talks as US Vice President's Visit Opens New Diplomatic Window
Africa21 Apr
Gaza Strikes Resume as Cairo Ceasefire Talks Continue in Parallel
Africa21 Apr
Hormuz disruption tightens Nigeria's jet fuel supply as distillate shortage bites
Africa21 Apr
DR Congo Drone Strike Kills Dozens of Civilians in Fizi, South Kivu
Africa21 Apr
The infrastructure beneath: how Fawry became Egypt's financial nervous system
Africa21 Apr
China Offers Africa a Joint Response to Middle East Economic Fallout
Africa21 Apr
Burkina Faso Junta Supporters Target Sky News Journalist in Online Smear Campaign
Africa20 Apr
US Charges Woman Over Alleged Arms Pipeline From US to Sudan for Iranian Government
Africa20 Apr
Uganda Rescues 200 Civilians From Islamist Camp in DRC in Cross-Border Operation
Africa20 Apr
Ugandan Forces Rescue 200 from IS-Linked ADF Camp in Eastern Congo
Africa20 Apr
TPLF Restoration of Tigray Government Raises Fresh Alarm Over Ethiopia Peace Deal
Africa20 Apr
Khartoum Opens the Door: Russia's Orthodox Church Finds a Foothold in Sudan
Africa20 Apr
Senegal-Flagged Tanker Transits Strait of Hormuz Amid Sanctions Pressure
Africa20 Apr
Somaliland Congratulates Taiwan's Lai as Beijing's Africa Strategy Faces New Test
Africa20 Apr
Saudi Arabia forces Pakistan to suspend $1.5bn Sudani arms deal as regional patrons reposition
Africa20 Apr
Saudi Pressure Forces Pakistan to Pause $1.5bn Sudan Arms Deal
Africa20 Apr
Nigeria's Stock Market Hours Extension Signals Serious Intent on African Capital Market Integration
Africa20 Apr
Morocco Joins Regional Wave of Pro-Palestinian Protests as Maghreb Solidarity Movements Mobilise
Africa20 Apr
Iran rebuffs ceasefire talks as US blockade tightens and arrest highlights regional arms network
Africa20 Apr
French Disinformation Watchdog Turns Analytical Lens Toward Armenian Elections
Africa20 Apr
Boko Haram Kidnaps More Than 400 Women and Children in Borno State
Africa20 Apr
Armed Groups Strike Military Outpost in Central Nigeria, Seizing Equipment
Africa19 Apr
The Weight of Unnamed Bodies: Infant Remains in Trinidad and the Silence Around Marginalized Death
Africa19 Apr
USS Gerald R. Ford Breaks 296-Day Deployment Record as US Naval Presence in the Atlantic-African Theater Draws Fresh Scrutiny
Africa19 Apr
U.S. Mediation in DRC Conflict: Humanitarian Progress or Neocolonial Diplomatic Theater?
Africa19 Apr
Ukraine Opens First West African Agrohub in Ghana, Marking Strategic Push Into Continent's Food Security Architecture
Africa19 Apr
Somalia Condemns Israel's Somaliland Diplomatic Move, Warns of Horn Destabilisation
Africa19 Apr
Somalia Signals Diplomatic Shift on Israel, Raising Questions Over Envoy Appointment
Africa19 Apr
The Cash Economy Inside South Africa's Digital Ride-Hailing Market
Africa19 Apr
The Russian Orthodox Church's African gambit: soft power, theology, and the limits of the Western frame
Africa19 Apr
Pope Leo's Africa Tour Tests Vatican's Diplomatic Balance Between Kyiv and Washington
Africa19 Apr
Nigeria's Telecom Debt Trap: How Airtime Lending Became a Battleground for Consumer Protection
Africa19 Apr
After Watching the Naira Erase His Family's Investment, a Nigerian Built an FX Platform for Businesses
Africa19 Apr
The Strait of Hormuz and the Theater of Small-State Ambition: Latvia's Persian Gulf Gambit
Africa19 Apr
Federal prosecutors allege Iranian-American woman ran weapons network to Africa from California
Africa19 Apr
Gulf on Edge: Strait of Hormuz Tensions Expose Limits of American Dominance
Africa19 Apr
FBI Arrest of Iranian National at LAX Signals Escalating US Enforcement on Third-Country Sanctions Workarounds
Africa19 Apr
The Base, the Children, and the Silence: DNA Uncovers Decades of Concealment Near Kenya's British Training Ground
Africa19 Apr
DRC and M23 sign humanitarian agreement in test of rebel group's commitment to peace
Africa19 Apr
DRC and Rwanda-Backed M23 Sign Ten-Day Humanitarian Accord, but Goma's Shadow Looms Large
Africa19 Apr
Africa's Digital Payment Revolution Is Leaving Reliability Behind
Africa19 Apr
Arab League Foreign Ministers Issue Joint Condemnation of Israeli Actions in Emergency Session
Africa18 Apr
Zimbabwe's ZiG at Two Years: A Gold-Backed Currency in a Country With No Trust Left to Back It
Africa18 Apr
US Reversal on Russian Oil Sanctions Reveals Hormuz Dependency Paradox
Africa18 Apr
Tanzania Under Samia: The Limits of a 'Reformist' Narrative When Opposition Leaders Keep Disappearing
Africa18 Apr
Cash, Connectivity, and Colonial Shadows: South Africa's Ride-Hailing Economy Exposes Financial Exclusion
Africa18 Apr
When the Algorithm Moves On: Sama's Kenya Layoffs and the Disposability of African AI Labor
Africa18 Apr
Rwanda's Governance Myth Under Pressure: How the M23 Endgame Is Testing Kagame's Model
Africa18 Apr
The Hidden Cost of AI: How Big Tech's Kenya Problem Reveals a Hollow Outsourcing Model
Africa18 Apr
Pope Leo XVI in Angola: The Vatican's Africa Pivot Is Not a Pastoral Visit
Africa18 Apr
Nigeria's Frontier Return: The NGX Trading Hour Extension and What It Cannot Fix
Africa18 Apr
Nigeria's FCCPC Forces MTN and Airtel to Pause Airtime Lending — and Asks a Question Bigger Than Telcos
Africa18 Apr
Mozambique's Gas Trap: How Cabo Delgado Became a Laboratory for Extraction Without Development
Africa18 Apr
Justin Sun's World Liberty Financial Rebuke Exposes Fault Lines in Crypto Governance
Africa18 Apr
Enugu's 260 Smart Schools and AI Institute: Nigeria's Subnational Bet on Digital Sovereignty
Africa18 Apr
Enugu's AI Institute: Digital Leap or Talent Extraction Scheme?
Africa18 Apr
Côte d'Ivoire's Cocoa Paradox: Record Prices, Record Poverty, and the CFA Franc's Silent Tax
Africa18 Apr
Bitcoin's Global South Crackdown: Sovereignty or Submission?
Africa18 Apr
Bitcoin's African Gambit: Liberation Narrative Meets Dollar Reality
Africa18 Apr