Climate Shocks, Governance Gaps and the Refugee Crisis in the Sahel

Yusuf Abdullahi stood beside the only well left in his town, its rim ringed with rust and water tinted a cloudy brown. For decades, the people of Bultu Briya, a village in Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa State, had pulled their lives from this...

Guinea announces first post-coup presidential vote on December 28

CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea will on December 28 hold its first presidential election since a coup in 2021, according to a decree read on state television. The announcement was made on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court validated the results of...

How Africa Can Get Rich

Africa too can get rich, as once-poor Asian countries have, but not if governments keep doing what they’ve been doing. Basically, they will have to throw off the stifling tax systems inherited from their prior colonial governments. Certainly,...

How TCM is expanding China’s soft power in Africa – from Tunisia to Chad

Tunisia has unveiled a new Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture Clinical Skills Training Centre, just months after the country’s health minister, Mustapha Ferjani, made a visit to China. The facility, located at Mongi Slim University...

UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid

Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly scrapped support for a fleet of aircraft providing “life-saving” humanitarian aid to some of the world’s poorest countries. The decision further reduces the distribution of vital aid...

Nigeria extends visa-free entry beyond Africa in landmark Caribbean deal

The recent visa-free travel agreement between Nigeria and St. Kitts & Nevis stemmed from high-level talks between Prime Minister Dr. Terrance M. Drew and Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja earlier this year, alongside wider...

Nigerian Militants Increasingly Employ Digital Warfare

Executive Summary Militant groups in Northern Nigeria, including Boko Haram and ISWAP, increasingly exploit encrypted messaging apps, social media algorithms, and AI tools to recruit, radicalize, and coordinate. Nigeria’s counterterrorism response...

Electricity is bedrock of jobs, manufacturing and economic growth in power-deficit Africa

Around 600mn people in Africa—roughly 43% of the continent’s population — still lack access to electricity. While electrification rates have improved over the past decade (from about 40% in 2010 to around 57% in 2024), sub-Saharan Africa remains...

Culture minister pledges support for upcoming ...

The delegation was made up of members of the festival’s organising committee. Led by the festival’s Delegate General, Bassek Bâ Kobhio, the delegation presented major innovations planned for the 29th edition and also tabled their project for a...

After brother-in-law exonerated in Tina Heins' 1994 Mayport stabbing, new suspect arrested

A new suspect has been arrested in the three-decade-old murder case of pregnant 20-year-old Tina Heins. Michael Shane Ziegler, a friend of the victim's husband, was arrested based on enhanced forensic technology and DNA evidence. The victim's...

Cuban man on hunger strike in Eswatini Prison after US deportation

A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison, having been held there for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel under the Trump...

A tale of two Africas

The west and east African countries of the Ivory Coast and Eritrea sit about five and a half thousand kilometres apart from one another, at opposite ends of that great continent. That’s about as far from London as Boston, Massachusetts in one...

Journalists targeted amid Sudan’s war: stories from the ground

By Violet Ikong and Éloge Willy Kaneza Since the outbreak of civil war in April 2023, Sudan has become one of the deadliest countries in Africa for journalists. According to the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate, more than 30 journalists have been...

Gambia’s Vice President Addresses UNGA 80, Calls for Palestinian Statehood and Stronger Multilateralism

- Advertisement - By: The Fatu Network Newsdesk Gambia’s Vice President Mohammed B. S. Jallow delivered a wide-ranging speech at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, speaking on behalf of President Adama...

Killings won’t end if govt continues to negotiate with bandits -Pogu, president, Middle Belt Forum

As the rumoured ambition of former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2027 presidential election continues to dominate the political space, the President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Bitrus Pogu, has advised the former president not...

How nativism determines whose vote counts in the Central African Republic

This December, citizens of the Central African Republic (CAR) will head to the polls for the first election since the country’s constitution was amended to remove presidential term limits. With “2.3 million voters […] registered, including 749,000...

ECOWAS: A Pact for a Democratic Future for West Africa, By Jibrin Ibrahim

This week, I am in Accra attending an ECOWAS consultative meeting in line with the organisation’s concern that it is facing an existential crisis and that a year-long grassroots consultation process be organised to prepare a pact for the future of...

Reporter's Notebook: Government shutdown chances astronomical as Congress barrels toward deadline

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on Democratic reaction to a mass firing warning from the White House on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Spotting a "government shutdown" in the federal...

DRC Ceasefire Collapse; Turkish Troops to Niger; El Fasher on the Brink: Africa File, September 25, 2025

To receive the weekly Africa File or triweekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Key Takeaways: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are conducting at...

Black Paper: A symbolic title or Africa's answer to colonial debt narratives?

GhanaWeb Feature by Ernestina Serwaa Asante Following the launch of the Pan-African "Black Paper" on debt earlier in 2025, many have been left wondering why it was named the Black Paper. Is the paper itself black, or is it simply a symbolic title?...