Africa Intelligence Brief - November 5, 2025

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Gulf capital is backing a mega-project on Egypt's coast, while Libya has detained a repatriated official. Kenya's private-sector PMI has hit a multi-year high, and a diaspora success story is energizing youth in Uganda....

ECOWAS Condemns Terror Surge in West Africa, Denies Claims of Targeted Genocide

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on the United Nations and global partners to intensify support for member states facing a sharp rise in terrorist attacks, particularly in Nigeria and across the Sahel and Lake Chad...

Advocates target Black Caucus after governor’s vetoes

Coalition for a Just and Equitable California member Chad Brown speaks in front of the California State Capitol last January before a group of reparation activists. Brown is angry with the California Legislative Black Caucus for not doing more to...

Intercommunal clash over Chad well kills at least 33

N’Djamena – A violent clash over water between two communities has killed at least 33 people in a village in Chad, a government official said on Wednesday. Chad’s public television channel ONAMA said Tuesday’s fighting was between two communities...

Today in Africa — November 5, 2025: New Satellite Images Show Mass Graves in Sudan’s El Fasher, 33 Killed in Chad Intercommunal Clash, AU Says Tanzania Election Failed Democratic Standards

NEWS OkayAfrica has scoured the internet for today’s major news stories, so you don't have to. An October 30, 2025, satellite image of the former children’s hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher, which the RSF had used as a prison. courtesy of Vantor via...

Trump’s threat of military action against Nigeria: Musings on his real intentions, By Yusuf Bangura

President Trump and African leaders The history of the US’ quest for foreign resources indicates that it uses multiple strategies to achieve its goals: coercion, war, bribery and diplomacy. Coercion involves suspending aid or other economic...

Africa loses $10b to medical tourism, NMA urges investment in healthcare

About $10 billion is lost every year to outbound medical tourism in Africa. Out of the amount, Nigeria alone loses about $2 billion annually to medical tourism abroad. National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Bala...

Syria’s ISIS-Aligned Government May Join the U.S.-Led Coalition Against ISIS – Kurds Skeptical

The war against ISIS. Photo courtesy of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani), is scheduled to visit Washington on November 10, 2025, where he is expected to formally sign an...

Lackluster voter turnout for General Election on the Harbor

Election highlighted by several close races, a few landslides By Jerry Knaak The Daily World • November 5, 2025 1:30 am Just 17% of 51,765 eligible voters have participated in the 2025 General Election in Grays Harbor County compared to the 19%...

Customs Confirms Cross-Border Trade Resumes After Post-Election Disruptions, Charts November Course

(Business in Cameroon) - The Director General of Customs, Fongod Edwin Nuvaga, confirmed on Monday, 3 November 2025, that cross-border trade activities in some parts of the country have resumed following disruptions linked to post-election unrest....

African Governments Draft AI Strategies But Fail on Implementation

More than half of African governments have published national artificial intelligence (AI) strategies, but only a fraction have attached budgets, laws, or monitoring frameworks to make them work, according to a new study by tech researchers Mo...

Lake Chad Basin: repeated flooding weakens an already stricken region

Lake Chad Basin: repeated flooding weakens an already stricken region Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental challenges. Published on 04 November 2025 in ISS Today...

France’s Failure in Mali Threatens the World

U.S. President Donald Trump has a habit of exaggerating threats where they barely exist while ignoring genuine catastrophes unfolding in plain sight. His recent claims that Christians are existentially threatened in Nigeria are wildly...

US may be planning military base in Nigeria, says EX-COAS Dambazau

Former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. AbdulRahman Dambazau (retd.), has said that the United States may be preparing to set up a military base in Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja at the 7th Annual Lecture of the Just Friends...

2025 Election Reveals Fragility of Cameroon’s Long-Rule System

When Cameroon’s Constitutional Council declared 92-year-old Paul Biya the winner of yet another presidential election on October 27, few inside the country were surprised. The story seemed to repeat itself, as it has for over four decades. Once...

Troops repel ISWAP dawn attack in Lake Chad, neutralise several fighters

Troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, and the Nigerian Army have repelled a dawn attack by fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, in Malam Fatori, a strategic border town on the fringes of Lake Chad. The...

INTERVIEW – Global neglect led to Sudan crisis, much more attention essential: Red Cross Africa head

‘The situation keeps growing in size and volume, not only for those in the country, but also for the millions of refugees that have left Sudan,’ says Youssef Neglecting crises in places such as Sudan or DR Congo creates ‘irreversible humanitarian...

Threat: US planning to establish military base in Nigeria, says Dambazau

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), on Tuesday said the United States may be positioning itself to establish a military base in Nigeria. He stressed that the recent narratives by some foreign actors, including...

Unchecked, Sudan’s war could trigger another genocide against Darfurians

Unchecked, Sudan’s war could trigger another genocide against Darfurians African and international efforts to stop the war have been slow. Now swift action, including possibly invoking R2P, is vital. After an 18-month siege, the paramilitary Rapid...

Elderly African rulers sidestepping democracy

Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya is now poised to stretch his time in power to five decades. If he finishes his new seven-year term, Biya will be nearly 100. By contrast, the median age of Cameroon’s 30 million citizens is just 18....