Tue 18 February 2025: Zambia’s president has said the American aid agency (USAID) freeze on funding to Africa serves as a wake-up call for the continent to strengthen its capacity to mobilize and manage resources locally and effectively. Hakainde Hichilema said that the impact of the funding withdrawal cannot be overstated, urging African nations to […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that there is no excuse that Africa still lacks permanent representation on the UN Security Council. Guterres was in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, attending the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which began […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: South Africa could turn to Russia or Iran to expand its civilian nuclear power capacity, a senior government minister has said. This is a stance that analysts say could deepen a rift with the US and delay further the renewal of a strategic energy pact, Reuters has reported. South Africa, which operates Africa’s […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: Sudan’s Sovereign Council leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Monday that the Sudanese people will not accept any externally imposed solutions. “The Sudanese people will ultimately prevail, whether others like it or not, and they will not accept any foreign-imposed solutions,” Burhan told a conference in Darfur province in western Sudan. “The […]
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Mon 17 February 2025: Air force commanders from 40 African countries have gathered in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, to discuss collaboration on humanitarian aid and disaster relief. Addressing the 14th Annual African Air Chiefs (AAAC) symposium 2025 of the Association of African Air Forces (AAAF), Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema said disaster risks transcend borders and […]
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Mon 17 February 2025: Valentine’s Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this indulgence faces an existential threat. Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a slow, yet unrelenting drying of the land. Cocoa is made from the beans of […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: An illegal gold mine in western Mali suffered a devastating collapse late Saturday, killing dozens of miners under debris as they searched for gold, said local authorities. Most were reportedly women. Local authorities reported that rescue operations were still underway at Bilali Koto well into the evening, with emergency services and […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Investigators from the Department of Home Affairs, along with the South African Police Service (SAPS), detained Anabela Rungo, the mother of Chidimma Adetshina, at a property in Cape Town on Saturday. This action follows the withdrawal of Rungo’s South African documentation in September 2024, after it was discovered that it had […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: The factory may be in East Africa, but the Wrangler and Levi’s jeans rolling off the production line are pure Americana, destined for US stores like Walmart and JCPenney. The United Aryan factory, on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, exists for one reason: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Sudan’s women and girls have endured horrific sexual violence throughout this war. They deserve support and protection. Today, African heads of states are convening on the margins of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa to discuss Sudan’s devastating conflict and come up with strategies to try and put the country […]
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