Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
Guyana’s economy expanded by 19.3% in 2025, marking the sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth, even as the pace of expansion in its oil sector slowed compared with previous years, Finance Minister
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As Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni begins a seventh term in office at the age of 81, attention is rapidly shifting to his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has consolidated power as head of
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Thousands of supporters gathered outside the East London Magistrate’s Court on Friday as Julius Malema, South Africa’s most polarizing opposition figure, awaited sentencing for firing a rifle into the air at a
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Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau announced the suspension of a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study, intensifying a broader debate over control and oversight of clinical research conducted in Africa. During a
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China’s rapid construction of a port network across Africa is emerging as a major geopolitical pivot, reshaping global trade and shifting the balance of power along the world’s most critical maritime arteries.
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In 2015, world leaders made a landmark commitment to end epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030, and to achieve universal health coverage and equitable access to medicines
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When Yoweri Museveni marched into Kampala in 1986 after a brutal bush war, he presented himself as the antidote to Africa’s curse of strongmen who clung to power. “The problem of Africa
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Ethiopia has launched construction of a $12.5 billion airport that officials say will be the largest aviation infrastructure project in Africa, marking a major expansion of the country’s ambitions as a continental
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar visited Somaliland on Tuesday, marking the first high-level Israeli diplomatic trip to the self-declared republic since Israel officially recognised it as an independent state on December 27.
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For decades, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, known as Tazara, symbolised both engineering ambition and African independence. But today, the once-bustling line that carried over a million tonnes of copper and freight annually has
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In the decades following World War II, US food aid programs were promoted as humanitarian lifelines for newly independent and crisis-stricken nations. But historical accounts and critics argue that these initiatives often
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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has issued a stark warning, claiming that intelligence gathered by his government indicates Somaliland has agreed to a set of far-reaching demands from Israel that could dramatically
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Israel is on the hot seat—not for Gaza, or Iran, or even for attacks on Syria or Lebanon. No, Israel is on the hot seat for being the first country to establish
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged the role of the Mossad in Israel’s decision to recognize Somaliland as an independent state, a move that has triggered strong condemnation from Arab and
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by Durga Velayudham Reports of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland—whether already consummated or deliberately left in strategic ambiguity—should not be understood as a sudden diplomatic improvisation. Rather, they represent the possible public surfacing of
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