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Africa24 Jul
Ruto's three-pillar week meets Gachagua's parallel project
Africa24 Jul
Kindiki's tightrope: food security, by-election blowback, and the deputy under pressure
Africa23 Jul
Obado and two co-accused convicted in Sharon Otieno murder, remand extended pending sentencing
Africa23 Jul
GeoPoll data paints a low-margin, football-heavy betting market across six African countries
Africa22 Jul
'Inside Ruto''s long game: Kindiki, tribal politics, and Kenya''s post-2030
Africa21 Jul
Helen Zille's Joburg Bid Tests the Limits of the DA's Coalition Playbook
Africa21 Jul
Wave's West African mobile-money squeeze tests Orange's grip on the CFA franc zone
Africa21 Jul
Thirteen countries, one pipe: West Africa’s $25bn bet to monetise its own gas
Africa21 Jul
Wafcon 2026 finally kicks off in Morocco: what the delay cost and what is at stake
Africa21 Jul
UNAIDS chief presses Africa to rebuild health financing as donor aid contracts
Africa21 Jul
Uganda Tells Bunyoro Health Workers: Uniforms Are Now Compulsory On Duty
Africa21 Jul
UK Export Finance's £10bn Africa push runs straight into the bankability question
Africa21 Jul
Trump's deportation bargains and the China dividend
Africa21 Jul
Sudan slips deeper into the margins as Washington's sanctions collide with a war the army cannot finish
Africa21 Jul
Spain's World Cup win, and the soft-power scramble behind it
Africa21 Jul
In Bangolo, women carry a state that has stepped away
Africa21 Jul
South Africa moves to bind every SIM card to a verified digital identity
Africa21 Jul
Pretoria turns to the World Bank for a $1.5bn infrastructure fix
Africa21 Jul
Sifuna's 47-county test: how Kenya's opposition is auditioning a presidential bid without naming one
Africa21 Jul
Saudi oil pivots around Africa as Red Sea shipping costs climb
Africa21 Jul
Senegal backs Macky Sall for UN Secretary-General, reopening the African candidacy question
Africa21 Jul
Faye's endorsement hands Sall a Senegalese bridge into the UN race
Africa21 Jul
Ruto Calls National Convention on Lawlessness as Hackers Knock State Site Offline
Africa21 Jul
Ruto's Three-Day Push: Free University Funding, a Cyberattack Admission, and a Call for National Conversation
Africa21 Jul
Ruto's TSC nomination for Sossion hands the teacher lobby its most seasoned operator back
Africa21 Jul
Kirinyaga MP Njeri Maina's Mount Kenya broadside rattles Kenya's coalition arithmetic
Africa21 Jul
Abuja and Accra press the AU to act as anti-migrant protests roil South Africa
Africa21 Jul
West African leaders sign off on a $25bn gas pipeline that still has to clear the money
Africa21 Jul
Nigeria's Senate Breaks Its Silence on the 'Repentant' Boko Haram Question
Africa21 Jul
Three atomic powers, one African market: the civilian reactor race the world isn't watching
Africa21 Jul
Lagos to Lagos-by-way-of-Washington: Nigeria's 2027 opposition goes abroad
Africa21 Jul
A bribe request, an undercover boss, and the optics problem at the heart of Nigeria's anti-corruption fight
Africa21 Jul
Another capsize, another missing file: why Nigeria's waterways keep swallowing the same question
Africa21 Jul
Nairobi's gender-money debate lands in a wider season of capital reckoning
Africa21 Jul
Nairobi's Parking Levy Hike and the Quiet Reshaping of African City Revenues
Africa21 Jul
Naivasha businessman's phone call, and a currency board that won't sit still
Africa21 Jul
Morocco builds for 2030 as Mbappé headlines a record-breaking World Cup
Africa21 Jul
A cabinet secretary's tweet warning and the strange new gatekeepers of opportunity
Africa21 Jul
A ski resort remakes a mountain kingdom's economy, one slope at a time
Africa21 Jul
Launch Africa writes 15 cheques while the continent's late-stage capital goes quiet
Africa21 Jul
Kindiki's unity appeal lands in a Kenya already picking sides
Africa21 Jul
Kinshasa takes its minerals fight with Kigali to the UN
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's editorials land on the same page for once: the centre must not outsource order to thugs
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's Deputy President bets on a 'First World by 2063' line, and the unity chorus he keeps repeating
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's nuclear push and its counterfeit pharmacy: two tests of state capacity
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's parliament moves on haemophilia and a land audit in the same week
Africa21 Jul
Ruto Reshuffles the Spokesperson's Chair, Moving Mwaura Into a New Diversity Office
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's school-fire crisis returns, with parents counting the dead and the same questions
Africa21 Jul
Kitui tops TSC teacher deployments as a three-year hiring push reshapes Kenya's classroom map
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's post-violence vacuum and a Democratic rupture over Israel aid: two stories the wires quietly linked
Africa21 Jul
Karamoja's hunger emergency exposes the limits of Uganda's climate adaptation
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's two-editorial moment: AG Dorcas Oduor and the limits of prosecutorial discretion
Africa21 Jul
Kenya's cancer-killing bacteria: how a Nairobi lab is rewriting the rules of tumour therapy
Africa21 Jul
Kenya moves to recover Sh790m Kisumu prison land the EACC says was looted
Africa21 Jul
Six Ivory Coast opposition officials walk free after nine months in pretrial detention
Africa21 Jul
Abidjan bets on national champions to lock in a decade of growth
Africa21 Jul
Strait of Hormuz shockwave: how an oil-price spike above $90 is squeezing African budgets
Africa21 Jul
Hong Kong-owned HBM races to add cement capacity in Nigeria, putting Dangote and BUA on notice
Africa21 Jul
Ghana jails opposition financier Wontumi for 20 years in landmark galamsey ruling
Africa21 Jul
Ghana jails Wontumi as illegal-mining crackdown reaches a political nerve
Africa21 Jul
Ghana jails opposition's 'Chairman Wontumi' for 20 years over illegal mining
Africa21 Jul
Faye takes the ECOWAS chair: a sovereigntist anchor for a fragile bloc
Africa21 Jul
Forty-three years on the throne: Cameroon's Biya disappears from view, again
Africa21 Jul
Canada's Ebola border curb lands as DRC outbreak tally climbs past a dozen
Africa21 Jul
Britain's aid cheque is dead. Lagos ports are the new pitch.
Africa21 Jul
Yemen's Ansarullah announce Red Sea blockade of Saudi ports, jolting regional shipping corridors
Africa21 Jul
Africa's bet: why the 25-34 cohort is gambling the continent's mobile-money surplus
Africa21 Jul
ADNOC's African footprint grows with $1bn Shell deal
Africa21 Jul
Football stays king of African betting, but mobile wallets are reshaping the punt
Africa21 Jul
Africa CDC presses Washington to lift Uganda travel curbs as Ebola outbreak ebbs
Africa21 Jul
Football betting pulls in the majority of adults across six African markets, GeoPoll finds
Africa21 Jul
Africa now the world's hunger capital, and the AI dividend it is being sold may not reach the table
Africa20 Jul
UN warns terrorist groups in northern Nigeria and the Sahel are fielding drones and crypto rails
Africa20 Jul
UNICEF in northwestern Nigeria: the children the security crisis keeps producing
Africa20 Jul
Twenty children killed in Uganda bus crash renew focus on rural road risk
Africa20 Jul
Karamoja's food convoy rolls out as Uganda confronts a chronic vulnerability
Africa20 Jul
Twenty-one dead in eastern Uganda as school trip ends in crash
Africa20 Jul
Trump's Africa Inattention Hands China a Continent Already on Loan
Africa20 Jul
Sudan, the cameras left, and the cheque that never arrives
Africa20 Jul
Stigma, not the virus, kills: Bhekisisa reads Netflix's The Polygamist against the Rio science
Africa20 Jul
South Africa's HIV Burden Concentrates in Young Women as the Underlying Drivers Outlast Any Single Programme
Africa20 Jul
Sahel Forests Are Becoming the Jihadi Frontline. The Counter-Terrorism Response Is Fractured.
Africa20 Jul
Salasya's Western Kenya appeal puts unity back on the opposition's front burner
Africa20 Jul
São Tomé and Príncipe counts votes in a presidential race the rest of Africa is quietly watching
Africa20 Jul
A young journalist's death on Uhuru Highway, and the road-safety crisis Nairobi keeps failing to fix
Africa20 Jul
Puntland fracture: Puntland Armed Forces and federal-aligned units clash west of Bosaso
Africa20 Jul
The Long Afterlife of Political Violence: How a Nine-Country Study Is Reshaping the Debate on Youth and Memory in Africa
Africa20 Jul
As the Nigerian Bar Heads to a Vote, a Senior Counsel Hands the Next President a Single Mandate: Hold It Together
Africa20 Jul
Nigeria's Football Crisis Won't Be Solved by Swapping Out Another NFF President
Africa20 Jul
Rash dismantling: Inside Nigeria's 6-3-3-4 education debate
Africa20 Jul
Nigeria's boat disasters recur because the institutions that should stop them never showed up
Africa20 Jul
Malnutrition returns to northern Nigeria as the cost of food outruns the clinics
Africa20 Jul
Mozambique Stands Alone in Southern Africa's Conflict Map, UN Brief Warns
Africa20 Jul
Nairobi's illicit-brews crackdown puts a spotlight on Kibra's deeper alcohol economy
Africa20 Jul
A Shallow Grave in Machakos, and the Pattern Behind Kenya's Unexplained Rural Deaths
Africa20 Jul
Mandela Day and the Limits of Volunteer Unity in Soweto
Africa20 Jul
A snake park under a sandstone cliff: one man's 30-year stand against superstition and state drift in Lesotho
Africa20 Jul
Kibra's illicit brew sting: two arrests, 220 litres seized in Kianda 42
Africa20 Jul
Kindiki's Mt Kenya East pitch lands in a basket that already costs more per kilogram
Africa20 Jul
KDF clears four IEDs in Lamu as Kenya's coastal terror threat refuses to fade
Africa20 Jul
Kebbi ADC to APC: state institutions or campaign trail
Africa20 Jul
Kenya's Kanini Kega Says State Security Pulled Days After He Reported Surviving an Armed Attack
Africa20 Jul
Kenya's Mount Kenya by-election erupts into a warning shot for 2027
Africa20 Jul
Kenya's Ol Kalou By-Election Resurfaces the Question of Campaign Finance in a Heavily Centralised Party System
Africa20 Jul
Ruto's Website Returns, but Kenya's Cyber Posture Is the Real Story
Africa20 Jul
A Town Without Sleep: Inside Kanoni's Crime Surge
Africa20 Jul
From Abidjan to the world stage: how Ivorian fashion became a soft-power export
Africa20 Jul
El-Rufai's Doctor Charged With Forgery as Bail Medical Report Faces Court Scrutiny
Africa20 Jul
Ghana's Airport City is rewriting where West African wealth lives
Africa20 Jul
Accra's TikTok conviction tests Ghana's online speech appetite
Africa20 Jul
Gabon's Debt Bill Climbs 23% as Libreville Pivots From Paris to the Regional Bond Market
Africa20 Jul
Twenty dead in eastern DRC as jihadist violence stretches Kinshasa's reach
Africa20 Jul
ECOWAS signs off on the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline, six years after the idea was mooted
Africa20 Jul
Dangote's dollar pivot and a repatriation flight: two tests of Nigeria's economic sovereignty
Africa20 Jul
Busia Senator Pushes Senate to Read the Treasury's Books in Real Time
Africa20 Jul
Cameroon's gold reckoning: a tax recovery operation and what it signals for African resource sovereignty
Africa20 Jul
Cameroon's gold slips out the door
Africa20 Jul
Twenty-six years, no houses: Buffalo City's land claimants still waiting
Africa20 Jul
Birao attack tests Bangui's grip on CAR's northeastern frontier
Africa20 Jul
Algeria's wildfire season arrives early as Mediterranean heat tightens its grip
Africa20 Jul
Amazon's Quiet End-Run Around Musk in South Africa
Africa20 Jul
Ankara's Africa push: how Erdogan is building a second-tier empire
Africa20 Jul
Abia State Defends Owerinta Road Project After Flooding Video Goes Viral
Africa20 Jul
Thousands rally in Addis Ababa against reported forced mobilisation in Tigray
Africa20 Jul
After AfDB, Adesina's restage: Africa's most networked financier won't sit still
Africa20 Jul
As Old Empires Tighten the Screws, African Sovereignty Looks for a Different Map
Africa20 Jul
Africa's World Cup, late and loud: a record contingent leaves with five exits and one story
Africa19 Jul
Nearly 100,000 Zimbabweans have left South Africa this year, says Harare, as repatriation machinery scales up
Africa19 Jul
Niel's $5.1bn Vodafone South Africa deal hands him a second African front
Africa19 Jul
UN sanctions armed-group leaders in eastern Congo as Kinshasa pushes for mineral supply-chain leverage
Africa19 Jul
Uganda's 42-day clock: what the last Ebola discharge does and does not signal
Africa19 Jul
Uganda discharges last Ebola patient, but the cross-border risk from eastern Congo is far from contained
Africa19 Jul
Ukraine's drone war is squeezing African fuel tanks
Africa19 Jul
Sputnik Africa's Telegram pitch exposes a wider information contest
Africa19 Jul
Somalia's chemistry squad returns with a silver and three bronzes from Tashkent
Africa19 Jul
South Sudan's unpaved lifeline: how deteriorating roads choke UN aid into a famine-prone country
Africa19 Jul
Russian strikes hit Kyiv and Odesa as summer air campaign deepens
Africa19 Jul
Russia pounds Odesa again, this time with eyes on the foreign-flagged fleet
Africa19 Jul
Novo Nordisk brings a cheaper Ozempic copy to South Africa, what changes, and what doesn't
Africa19 Jul
A photographer is beaten in Ol Kalou. The pattern is older than the by-election.
Africa19 Jul
Ol Kalou landslide hands Kenya's newest party a defining win
Africa19 Jul
A new monkey in Congo, and the long shadow over African taxonomy
Africa19 Jul
Northern Nigeria's hunger line now runs through Gaza and Tehran
Africa19 Jul
Rain, rivers, and abduction: Nigeria's twin emergencies in a single week
Africa19 Jul
Morocco's $25bn gas pipeline pitch and the question of what, exactly, is being sold
Africa19 Jul
War in the Middle East reaches a Nigerian clinic: how a distant conflict is undoing gains against child hunger
Africa19 Jul
Mali convoy ambush kills at least 50 soldiers, exposing the fault line between Bamako and its Russian partners
Africa19 Jul
Mali's Russian gamble under fresh strain after Savare–Gao convoy ambush
Africa19 Jul
Another bloody Saturday in Mali: armed groups kill at least 50 soldiers
Africa19 Jul
Kindiki moves to lock Mt Kenya as Kenya's 2027 map firms up
Africa19 Jul
Kenya's 2027 money race: cash, rallies and the question of who pays
Africa19 Jul
Kenya's university placement cycle concentrates students in the west as Nairobi crowds the top three
Africa19 Jul
Islamic State widens its Puntland foothold as Al Miskaad campaign grinds on
Africa19 Jul
Berlin moves to reopen Syrian air corridor as Damascus pivot reshapes the Levant's diplomatic map
Africa19 Jul
Fourteen deals in Rabat: France and Morocco turn the page on a long diplomatic freeze
Africa19 Jul
The motorbike rainmakers of Diobaye keep Senegal's oldest hunt alive
Africa19 Jul
Congress moves to freeze Nigeria aid over 'corrupt' framing, even as Trump envoy courts Abuja on counterterror
Africa19 Jul
Algeria's Mohammadia fire: an orphanage tragedy inside a record wildfire season
Africa19 Jul
Algeria courts Europe on gas, but Western Sahara and a fragile Sahel keep the price high
Africa19 Jul
Abidjan's $80 billion pitch: why Ivory Coast is pulling investor money while neighbours stall
Africa18 Jul
The World Cup After the Stadium: VR, Women Fans, and a 5% Rain Bet
Africa18 Jul
West Africa's coastal squeeze: when the response is the business model
Africa18 Jul
US prosecutor breaks silence on dropped Adani case, as questions over DOJ independence resurface
Africa18 Jul
Speedy, the stray who came home: how a Ukrainian military dog returned after three years
Africa18 Jul
Moscow's Mali Footage Hints at a Drone War the World Isn't Watching
Africa18 Jul
Sall's Dakar return tests Senegal's post-2024 settlement
Africa18 Jul
Kenya's 2022 abortion law, four years on: the rights the Constitution gave and the clinics still can't deliver
Africa18 Jul
Kenya's 'baby mama' economy: when fatherhood decouples from marriage
Africa18 Jul
Kenya's by-elections delivered a quiet rebuke to the political class. The reading is contested.
Africa18 Jul
Kenya's High Court keeps cannabis illegal, but the ruling opens a door the government will struggle to keep shut
Africa18 Jul
Kenyan Men Redraw the Family Map, and the Wedding List Pays the Price
Africa18 Jul
Kenyan court rejects Rastafarian cannabis plea, leaving religious-freedom fight in the appeal courts
Africa18 Jul
Britain's Kerr ends a 27-year mile record, and the African distance dynasty loses another entry in the books
Africa18 Jul
Kerr's 3:42.66 ends a 27-year wait: what the mile record actually changes
Africa18 Jul
Britain’s Josh Kerr breaks the men’s mile record after 27 years
Africa18 Jul
Iran's Jordan strike puts a dent in the US helicopter fleet, and exposes the cost of forward posture
Africa18 Jul
Addis Ababa's drill boom and a new refugee hub signal a city absorbing pressure on two fronts
Africa17 Jul
The Trump Route: how a US-led corridor is redrawing Armenia's southern edge
Africa17 Jul
Senegal's government muzzles its football federation in the wake of World Cup exit
Africa17 Jul
Sall's homecoming trip exposes the unfinished accounting of Senegal's 2024 crackdown
Africa17 Jul
Kenya's lupus patients priced out as Adira arrives: what changes, what doesn't
Africa17 Jul
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary Ruku rides a by-election wave with a pay rise for civil servants
Africa17 Jul
Court quashes Ruto's Sh12bn Ngong–Riruta rail plan, handing Nairobi a fiscal inflection point
Africa17 Jul
Houthi boardings return to the Bab el-Mandeb as the Gulf of Aden tanker Asana falls
Africa17 Jul
A Tanzanian-flagged tanker, a five-day silence, and the slow return of Gulf of Aden piracy
Africa17 Jul
Purity, PayPal and the politics of who pays for the next pandemic of chronic illness
Africa16 Jul
Yemen's Red Sea corridor: how a Daily Telegraph frame obscures the geography on the ground
Africa16 Jul
US tariff refunds outpace June collections, exposing the arithmetic of a refund economy
Africa16 Jul
Besigye's stand in the dock: a courtroom test of who gets to choose a lawyer in Uganda
Africa16 Jul
Uganda's last Ebola patient walks out: the 42-day clock starts now
Africa16 Jul
A Johannesburg courtroom becomes the next venue for a Hampshire triple-murder case
Africa16 Jul
Tony Leon returns to the headlines as DA lobbying row tests South Africa's opposition brand
Africa16 Jul
Pretoria's money tap and the November test
Africa16 Jul
A killing in Limpopo and a plea deal in Pretoria: South Africa's crisis of state legitimacy
Africa16 Jul
A plea deal collapses, a poll looms: South Africa's anti-corruption fight hits a wall
Africa16 Jul
Sifuna's ouster rattles Kenya's opposition hours after it was confirmed
Africa16 Jul
Ruto's pitch to Kenyans shifts from pulpit to paving stone
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election becomes Mt Kenya's first 2027 test
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou test: Ruto, Gachagua and the calculus of a single constituency
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election tests Ruto's Kenya Kwanza machine in Nyandarua's highland swing seat
Africa16 Jul
Joy in Oyo: rescued students return, but the abduction economy that took them is still in business
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou goes to the polls under the long shadow of 2027
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election opens with turnout questions after bribery claims surface
Africa16 Jul
A donkey, a polling station, and a long shot in Ol Kalou
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election tests Kenya's two-horse race as prediction markets and party machines collide
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election tests Kenya's ruling coalition as vote closes in Nyandarua
Africa16 Jul
Ol Kalou by-election tests Kenya's new opposition front against Ruto's ruling machine
Africa16 Jul
Two Nigerien journalists walk free after months behind bars
Africa16 Jul
Nigeria's central bank wants every retail dollar traced. The infrastructure is already arriving.
Africa16 Jul
A Fake Agency, a Real Concession: How a One-Room Fraud Put Nigeria's Corruption Fight Under the Microscope
Africa16 Jul
Nigeria tightens the screws on retail dollars, and quietly rebuilds the state’s eyesight
Africa16 Jul
Abuja's compensation bill for Pretoria: a diplomatic fight with no easy ledger
Africa16 Jul
Morocco joins Gaza stabilisation force as Rabat deepens its post-normalisation posture
Africa16 Jul
Malawians queue for repatriation as South Africa's anti-migrant mood hardens
Africa16 Jul
Six Mali army figures tied to ousted transitional leader Bah N'Daw face Bamako court on coup charges
Africa16 Jul
Lecornu in Rabat: Paris bets on a Morocco reset after years of friction
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's eCitizen Goes Dark for Five Hours, and the Question Nobody on the Maintenance Notice Asked
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's twin crises: cheap muscle, expensive weapons, and an election on the horizon
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's hired gangs and the quiet erosion of civic space
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's Iran tea route stalls as US strikes, and a Trump signal, redraw the Gulf
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's Iran tea trade is the first casualty most readers will never hear about
Africa16 Jul
Kenyan diaspora cash is still buying rice, rent and school fees, not equities
Africa16 Jul
Ruto tops the field, Kindiki holds the briefcase: Kenya's 2027 board is being drawn now
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's twin build: cheap muscle at home, expensive weapons abroad
Africa16 Jul
Kenyan families count their dead in a foreign war they never voted for
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's military imports surge past Nigeria's, but the bill lands in Nairobi's courtrooms
Africa16 Jul
Kenya's twin emergencies: drought in the breadbasket, drift in the streets
Africa16 Jul
Hemeti's death sentence: a verdict that won't reach the man
Africa16 Jul
Two chokepoints, one shipping lane: how Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are being drawn into the same contest
Africa16 Jul
Guy Scott, the accidental head of state who never planned to run Zambia, dies at 82
Africa16 Jul
Ghana's Green City gamble: why a new administrative capital won't fix Accra's flood problem
Africa16 Jul
Lecornu in Rabat: A Paris-Rabat Reset, Tested Against the Sahara File
Africa16 Jul
France's Pegasus flirt reveals a deeper bargain with Israeli surveillance
Africa16 Jul
Ebola Response in Eastern Congo Slows as Health Workers Strike Over Unpaid Wages
Africa16 Jul
El-Rufai at 150 days: Nigeria's lawfare problem becomes a diplomatic test
Africa16 Jul
DRC's Ebola responders strike for pay while the world looks away
Africa16 Jul
De Beers pulls the plug at Venetia as the rand tests new lows
Africa16 Jul
Congo's finance minister brings AFD playbook to Brazzaville's debt crisis
Africa16 Jul
Bab el-Mandeb returns to the front line as Yemen, Iran, and the US trade threats over a 20-mile chokepoint
Africa16 Jul
Eleven dead in Algiers orphanage fire as heatwave drives hundreds of blazes across northern Algeria
Africa16 Jul
Orphanage fire in eastern Algiers kills 11 as questions turn to safety, oversight
Africa16 Jul
Algeria's wildfire season opens with a death, a heat dome, and a forestry service under strain
Africa16 Jul
Africa's biggest World Cup doubles as the continent's biggest sponsorship pitch
Africa16 Jul
AGOA on notice: African exporters re-route as Washington turns up the heat
Africa16 Jul
Smallholder Africa takes the weather and the market at once
Africa15 Jul
Two warnings, one continent: the UN flags a widening terror belt as smallholder farms reel from a price collapse
Africa15 Jul
Ankara and Cairo draw the same moral line at the dock
Africa15 Jul
Gold flows, ghost flights: the new architecture of Sudan’s war economy
Africa15 Jul
Standard Bank's $29m deal with Helios Towers signals a quieter African infrastructure story
Africa15 Jul
The cat who wouldn't sing: how a South African plea deal collapse is reshaping the police corruption inquiry
Africa15 Jul
Senegal's World Cup exit exposes a federation at war with itself
Africa15 Jul
Sall's UN bid gets a Guinea-Bissau shadow: what Embaló is actually buying in New York
Africa15 Jul
Queiroz's Ghana audition: a 50-year-old coach, a fractured federation, and the World Cup cycle that won't wait
Africa15 Jul
When a pregnancy tips into periviability: a Kenyan obstetrician on the hardest weeks of his ward
Africa15 Jul
Moo Deng's World Cup semifinal picks go cold: Spain beat France 2-0, set up final date with the winner of England v Argentina
Africa15 Jul
Linda Mwananchi Returns: How a Kenyan Pressure Group Reopened the 2027 Succession Fight
Africa15 Jul
Unconventional boxing in Kenya: safety debate outpaces regulatory fix
Africa15 Jul
A Kenyan skater in Beijing: how Kevin Kiarie's double gold became a quiet diplomatic signal
Africa15 Jul
Kisumu's Coptic roundabout rebuild lands on a stretch that already has a body count
Africa15 Jul
Kenya looks inward as East Africa consolidates as its biggest export market
Africa15 Jul
Kenya's PrEP collapse exposes the cost of donor dependence
Africa15 Jul
Donor retreat hits Kenya's HIV prevention wall
Africa15 Jul
Kenya's cannabis question returns to the public square, after the court says it cannot decide
Africa15 Jul
Kenyan court closes the door on Rastafarian cannabis appeal, and leaves a wider policy debate hanging
Africa15 Jul
JPMorgan's Africa push arrives as dollar rails meet their own ceiling
Africa15 Jul
Brussels prepares to dial back refuge for Ukrainians as the war grinds on
Africa15 Jul
Ebola's return to eastern Congo: WHO launches first antiviral trial as the source of most new cases remains unknown
Africa15 Jul
DRC's Ebola outbreak hits 2,000 cases as WHO warns most infections come from nowhere on record
Africa15 Jul
Deir al-Balah strike kills three as Gaza's central corridor absorbs overnight bombardment
Africa15 Jul
De Beers hits pause at Venetia, and South Africa's diamond town reads the writing on the wall
Africa15 Jul
The man who cleared Tinubu now faces a tribunal of his own
Africa15 Jul
Ouagadougou pulls the plug on Paris as the Sahel rewrite gathers speed
Africa15 Jul
Benin's quiet front line: a Sahel refugee crisis the world has barely noticed
Africa15 Jul
Axum's 'holy town' ordinance exposes fault line between Ethiopia's constitution and its oldest church
Africa15 Jul
Blackcurrants, matatu change and cancelled flights: three quiet ways African readers are being asked to read the news
Africa15 Jul
Africa's biggest World Cup is also its biggest billboard
Africa14 Jul
Zimbabweans stream home across Beitbridge as anti-immigrant pressure builds in South Africa
Africa14 Jul
US bars its citizens in DR Congo from boarding commercial flights out as Ebola outbreak widens
Africa14 Jul
A UK murder suspect, an unlicensed firearm, and the Johannesburg paper trail South African police followed
Africa14 Jul
Uganda's high court dismisses Besigye bid to halt treason trial
Africa14 Jul
Johannesburg court appearance puts UK-South Africa extradition on the clock
Africa14 Jul
Trump blocks US citizens in DRC from boarding commercial flights as Ebola workers strike
Africa14 Jul
Togo's quiet trench: how Lomé is building a counter-Sahel jihadist strategy with Turkish help
Africa14 Jul
Ghana’s Sylvia Adusu becomes ITLOS’s first African woman judge, and the continent takes note
Africa14 Jul
Sudan army court sentences RSF chief Hemedti to death in absentia, deepening a war without front lines
Africa14 Jul
South Africa and Nigeria trade accusations as Pretoria's diamond pause deepens a bilateral rift
Africa14 Jul
Senegal's president launches a party of his own, eight months into a term he once said he would not contest
Africa14 Jul
Dakar installs a new constitutional referee as Senegal's institutions absorb the loss of Camara
Africa14 Jul
Senegal fires Pape Thiaw hours after World Cup exit, exposing the political economy of African football
Africa14 Jul
Senegal's World Cup doctor scandal lands in a federation already on probation
Africa14 Jul
Ruto's pre-2027 playbook: devolution by press release
Africa14 Jul
Sahel defence ministers reconvene in Ouagadougou as the bloc's security perimeter tightens
Africa14 Jul
Ramaphosa in France: a WWI commemoration that doubles as a reckoning on who gets remembered
Africa14 Jul
Oyo schoolchildren come home: a rare win in Nigeria's kidnap economy
Africa14 Jul
Oyo students rescued after May abduction, governor says, but the pattern stretches back a decade
Africa14 Jul
Nigeria's oil output hits a 74-month high, undercutting its OPEC ceiling and Abuja's credibility
Africa14 Jul
M23's Ebola playbook in eastern Congo: parallel statecraft in a four-case outbreak
Africa14 Jul
Lavrov courts Chad with scholarships, tells Africa its problems are its own
Africa14 Jul
Lavrov's Africa tour recasts Ukraine as a continent problem, and that framing is winning
Africa14 Jul
Junior Starlets book their place in Morocco as Ruto hails a 'historic' qualifier
Africa14 Jul
Kenya's cybercrime bill is now a banking-sector problem
Africa14 Jul
Jayden Adams dies at 25: South African football loses a World Cup midfielder before his prime
Africa14 Jul
How a Tehran-aligned framing of the US-Israel strike went viral, and what it tells us about information warfare in 2026
Africa14 Jul
Egypt's World Cup exit hands el-Sissi a stage he did not ask for
Africa14 Jul
DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses two new provinces as aid workers say response is losing ground
Africa14 Jul
DRC's Ebola outbreak is two to four times larger than Kinshasa is reporting
Africa14 Jul
Dangote as Africa’s shock absorber: what Afreximbank’s pitch gets right, and what it doesn’t
Africa14 Jul
Congo's Ebola outbreak is outpacing the response. The WHO knows why.
Africa14 Jul
Bundibugyo comes back: DR Congo and Uganda bet on a pill to outflank Ebola after exposure
Africa14 Jul
Boko Haram's AI playbook: what Cambridge's defectors reveal
Africa14 Jul
AU Corruption Speech Gets the Sceptical Reception It Earned
Africa14 Jul
Who Funds Africa's Energy Transition When Western Capital Prefers Stability to Resources
Africa14 Jul
AGOA’s one-year lifeline lands as the Atlantic churns
Africa13 Jul
U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa warns citizens off the DRC as Ebola outbreak deepens
Africa13 Jul
Trump's Africa envoy lands in Lagos as Washington reopens its Sahel playbook
Africa13 Jul
Sixteen dead in Uganda as drought deepens across the cattle corridor
Africa13 Jul
Ankara and Cairo sign a defence letter of intent, putting a decade of mistrust on the back foot
Africa13 Jul
Sudan army's Turkish drone downs Chinese-made UAV traced to UAE supply line to RSF
Africa13 Jul
Khartoum breathes again, but Sudan's war hasn't ended, it has moved
Africa13 Jul
Khartoum's verdict, Khartoum's calculus: a death sentence for Hemeti and the diplomatic geometry of Sudan's war
Africa13 Jul
Somalia arrests soldiers for trampling the US flag in Mogadishu
Africa13 Jul
South Africa's anti-migrant turn and the economy it might break
Africa13 Jul
A South African arrest, three UK deaths, and a slow extradition fight that is already underway
Africa13 Jul
Pretoria pulls the lever: R13.5bn freeze on 69 municipalities tests South Africa's fiscal federalism
Africa13 Jul
South Africa's minister flags border security at the Limpopo crossing after visit to Zimbabwe frontier
Africa13 Jul
Senegal's Constitutional Council pulls the handbrake on Sonko
Africa13 Jul
Senegal's Constitutional Council Pulls the Brake on Parliament's Power Grab
Africa13 Jul
Ruto's Infrastructure Bet: Northern Kenya Fund Meets a Tightening Electoral Clock
Africa13 Jul
Ruto's Northern Kenya pitch lands against an Infotrak lead he didn't ask for
Africa13 Jul
Ruto still leads, but one in five Kenyan voters are telling pollsters they have not made up their minds
Africa13 Jul
Ruto's teacher hiring spree collides with a tightening 2027 race
Africa13 Jul
Oman courts Tehran as Gulf mediators widen the diplomatic aperture
Africa13 Jul
Nairobi court clears path for police murder trial; U.S. high-earner families pivot away from traditional schooling
Africa13 Jul
Nigeria's Two Crises: A Vanishing Coast and a $363 Million Meth Bust
Africa13 Jul
Lavrov returns to Africa with a 2027 summit on the horizon
Africa13 Jul
Kenya's 15-billion tree pledge runs into the soil: 1.7 billion down, 13.3 to go
Africa13 Jul
An Afghan extradition through Nairobi tests Kenya's role as a hub for transnational crime cases
Africa13 Jul
Kenya's July cold snap brings a familiar enemy: seasonal flu
Africa13 Jul
Kenya's tax haul tops forecasts, but the squeeze on salaried workers is doing the heavy lifting
Africa13 Jul
Kenya's quiet fiscal pivot: enforcement over taxation as 2027 vote approaches
Africa13 Jul
Ruto leads, but one in five Kenyan voters remain undecided ahead of 2027
Africa13 Jul
Hormuz traffic thins as US-Iran flare-up pushes tankers to the margins
Africa13 Jul
Cairo pulls the curtain on GERD talks: what changed on 13 July
Africa13 Jul
DRC's Ebola outbreak stretches into a second month with no peak in sight
Africa13 Jul
Algeria and Mali reopen the border, send ambassadors back: what changed in a year
Africa12 Jul
Zulu king apologises after leaked video reignites debate over tradition, dignity and public office
Africa12 Jul
World Bank's $750bn Kenya package lands with anti-corruption strings attached
Africa12 Jul
Sudan's cholera outbreak crosses 100 deaths as rainy season compounds a war the world has stopped noticing
Africa12 Jul
Sifuna tells supporters ODM ouster is a state-backed campaign to break Nairobi opposition
Africa12 Jul
Kigali and Tel Aviv sign tech cooperation deal as DR Congo lobbying splits Rwandan partners
Africa12 Jul
Rybar's July 12 digest and the US Senate's Russia hands
Africa12 Jul
Russia's Africa Corps tightens grip on Mali's north as Anéfis siege lifts
Africa12 Jul
A Nigerian consortium revives a 1967 Shell well, and the terms of Africa's energy debate shift
Africa12 Jul
The Sh300m claim and the Ol Kalou by-election that won't sit still
Africa12 Jul
Two busts in one week expose the fault lines inside Nigeria's security state
Africa12 Jul
Two fronts, one week: kidnapped pupils freed in Oyo as Nigeria files charges in a $363 million meth case
Africa12 Jul
A shadow cabinet in Abuja: Nigeria's phantom presidential council and the politics of invented authority
Africa12 Jul
France ends Morocco’s run, but the Atlas Lions rewrite the World Cup map
Africa12 Jul
38,000 and counting: Malawi pulls its citizens out of South Africa as anti-migrant fury turns lethal
Africa12 Jul
Mali's Anéfis holds, but the fracture around it widens
Africa12 Jul
Mali's junta is losing ground to JNIM in the Sahel and the Wagner void isn't being filled
Africa12 Jul
Kenya's fiscal squeeze and the brown-envelope question: a state searches for revenue while trust in its press erodes
Africa12 Jul
Kenya's election referee moves first: IEBC sets 2027 spending ceilings and publishes 2022 disputes report
Africa12 Jul
Ruto's narrowing runway: the fixers, soldiers and gatekeepers around the 2027 vote
Africa12 Jul
Kenya's classroom crunch: MPs' funding pivot tests whether parliament can outrun a demographic clock
Africa12 Jul
Kenya's soil is exhausted. The bagged-fertiliser answer is running out of road.
Africa12 Jul
Kenya's TVET funding clash lands in court as HELB opens a fresh loan window
Africa12 Jul
Jayden Adams dies at 25 after World Cup appearance, leaving South African football to reckon with another sudden loss
Africa12 Jul
Iranian Channels Turn an Unverified Death Claim Into Diplomacy
Africa12 Jul
Tehran's Algeria envoy turns Lindsey Graham's death into a regime-survival narrative
Africa12 Jul
A parish in Lavington and a quiet revolt against the Vatican
Africa12 Jul
Fani-Kayode lands in Pretoria with the hardest job in Nigerian diplomacy
Africa12 Jul
Abiy's two-term promise lands in a country that has never lived under one
Africa12 Jul
Ebola's fastest outbreak meets a faster rumour problem in eastern DRC
Africa12 Jul
How Egypt turned a 3-2 World Cup exit into a credibility fight about the modern game
Africa12 Jul
Egypt's football team comes home to a Cairo the politics can't quite contain
Africa12 Jul
Egypt takes its World Cup grievance public as VAR row with FIFA turns into a referendum on officiating in the global game
Africa12 Jul
Carole Argwings-Kodhek and the inheritance of Kenyan dissent
Africa12 Jul
Connectivity or capture? Amazon and Starlink's satellite push meets Africa's bandwidth gap
Africa11 Jul
Wicknell Chivayo's patronage playbook: how a Harare contractor courted five African presidents
Africa11 Jul
Widdecombe killing suspect freed as Kenyan police inquiry resets
Africa11 Jul
When the rules don’t match: how US and Chinese sanctions are reshaping African business
Africa11 Jul
UN Fact-Finding Mission adds to the evidentiary record on Sudan as el-Fasher testimony goes public
Africa11 Jul
Tanzania stacks gold while Southern Africa lays new rails — two bets on a de-dollarised future
Africa11 Jul
Spain edge Belgium, France flatten Morocco: a World Cup semifinal that will be tracked, not just watched
Africa11 Jul
South Africa pulls the plug on Johannesburg and dozens of municipalities, citing financial mismanagement
Africa11 Jul
Sanction Layer-Cake: How US and China Export Controls Are Reshaping African Business
Africa11 Jul
Ol Kalou vote descends into mutual sabotage claims as IEBC weighs postponement
Africa11 Jul
A forged letter, a $1m budget, and the question of who really runs Nigeria's aid architecture
Africa11 Jul
Nigeria opens the grid to citizens — then admits a fake presidential council sat in the budget
Africa11 Jul
Nigeria's Two-Track Bet: Total Return Swaps in the Treasury, AI Governance in the Newsroom
Africa11 Jul
Morocco fall to France, Spain hold their nerve: a Euros special
Africa11 Jul
Mali recaptures Anefis after week of Tuareg fighting, with rebels still in the hills
Africa11 Jul
Kinshasa and Tunis: Two tests of African street politics, two very different verdicts
Africa11 Jul
Kenya's infrastructure fund gets a board, but the sovereign-wealth puzzle stays open
Africa11 Jul
Kenya bets a meat conference can turn pastoral livestock into a bankable export
Africa11 Jul
Kenya's succession politics sharpen as Kindiki closes ranks behind Ruto and Sifuna tests ODM's ceiling
Africa11 Jul
Ruto's sovereign wealth pitch meets an opposition that isn't talking
Africa11 Jul
Door-to-door immigration sweeps hit Johannesburg as anti-foreigner vigilantism resurfaces
Africa11 Jul
Kenya's defence bill climbs past Sh190 billion, exposing the cost of an increasingly crowded neighbourhood
Africa11 Jul
Jayden Adams, South Africa World Cup midfielder, dies at 25
Africa11 Jul
Jayden Adams, South Africa's World Cup breakout, dies at 25 in Cape Town
Africa11 Jul
Jayden Adams, South Africa World Cup midfielder, dies at 25
Africa11 Jul
Joburg's foreign-shop raids expose a fault line South Africa cannot keep burying
Africa11 Jul
Machetes in Johannesburg: the immigration protests shaking South Africa's economic core
Africa11 Jul
Jayden Adams dies at 25, weeks after South Africa's World Cup campaign
Africa11 Jul
Jayden Adams dies at 25, days after World Cup cap for South Africa
Africa11 Jul
Ebola's return to the DRC: 600 dead and the fastest-growing outbreak on record
Africa11 Jul
Egypt Eyes Quiet Expansion of Economic Ties With Israel as Diplomatic Freeze Holds
Africa11 Jul
Congo's Ebola outbreak crosses borders — and the responders are walking off the job
Africa11 Jul
Ebola returns to the Congo: a U.S. case, a payroll protest, and the question of who gets paid to fight the outbreak
Africa11 Jul
ATIDI's $2bn push puts Africa's own risk insurers at the centre of the financing debate
Africa11 Jul
Ankara turns a cruise ship away from Kuşadası
Africa11 Jul
Abuja's phantom council and the paperwork state: how a fake presidency quietly moved through Nigeria's budget
Africa10 Jul
Morocco's run ends, Africa's World Cup moment keeps building
Africa10 Jul
Lavrov lands in Bujumbura as Moscow courts Africa's last holdouts
Africa10 Jul
Ethiopia Posts Record Export Haul as Abiy Outlines a Sovereignty-First Doctrine
Africa10 Jul
Egypt exits the World Cup and a long grievance reopens
Africa10 Jul
Egypt returns from the World Cup to a different country than the one it left
Africa10 Jul