Download logo Intra-African Trade Fair 2025 (IATF2025), Africarsquo;s premier trade and investment forum, is excited to announce Dangote Group as an official Premier Partner. As one of Africarsquo;s leading industrial conglomerates, with over 18 subsidiaries operating across a wide spectrum of sectors critical to the continentrsquo;s economic transformation - including cement, fertilisers, petrochemicals, refined petroleum products, sugar, salt, and logistics, Dangote Group will be a key partner for IATF at its fourth edition to be held in Algiers, Algeria from 4-10 September 2025. The biennial IATF, hosted by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and organised by Afreximbank in...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended operations in two South Sudanese counties for at least six weeks after a second staffer was kidnapped in less than a week, the medical...

Nigeria | 30 minutes ago Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has stated that the nationwide electronic membership registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will commence soon in ?full force?. Uzondinma gave the assurance on Tuesday after inspecting the facilities alongside the Governors of Kogi...

Nigeria | 49 minutes ago L-R : Chief Asuquo Ekpenyong, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Zafar Iqbal, Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, wife of the governor, Bishop Eyoanwan Bassey Edet Otu at the CRID 2025 International Convention in Birmingham, United Kingdom.... Cross River indigenes in the Diaspora, last weekend, converged on Birmingham, United Kingdom, in what was clearly a new chapter of collaboration with the state government at the maiden edition of the Diaspora Convention. With the theme #8216;Diaspora Contribution to the Development and Sustainability of Cross River State,#8217; the convention signaled a pivotal moment for the state?s international...

Nigeria | 24 minutes ago Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Tinubu holds traditional rulers in the country in high esteem, recognising that they are the custodians of cultural heritage. Shettima made the assertion during an interactive meeting with traditional rulers in Ondo State on Tuesday in Akure. He said that the president recognised the support and cooperation of the traditional rulers across the country. ?President Bola Tinubu holds the traditional rulers in the highest esteem. ?He is part of you and he respects you; he values and cherishes you, our traditional leaders who are the custodians of our cultural heritage and close to people in the grassroots. ?The...

Rwanda has agreed to take up to 250 migrants deported from the US, the government announced on Tuesday. Rwanda joins African countries Eswatini and South Sudan in agreeing to take in deportees since the Trump administration turned to the African continent as a destination for...

In a dramatic move last week, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced the selection of its own prime minister and presidential council to compete with and directly challenge the legitimacy of the Sudanese government. News of the new parallel government comes days before a new round of peace talks was expected to begin in Washington last week. Although neither of the two civil war belligerents were going to attend, it was to be the latest effort by the United States to broker an end to the war in Sudan ? and the first major effort under Trump?s presidency. But the United States, which was planning to host the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...

Deal follows deportations to South Sudan and Eswatini despite concerns about international law breaches...

GENEVA/PORT SUDAN -- This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Sudan Representative Sheldon Yett - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva ......

African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies is proud to announce that Seyi Oladapo, Group CFO of Pan Ocean and the Newcross Companies, will be joining the continentrsquo;s premier energy event in Cape Town. His participation brings one of Nigeriarsquo;s most strategically positioned private energy players to the forefront of conversations on upstream growth, local capacity building and unlocking new investment across Africarsquo;s hydrocarbon value chain. As one of...

UN peacekeepers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan on Feb. 12, 2025. ......

Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, has met with Abel Didier Tella, Director General of the Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA), and his accompanying delegation at the ministry?s headquarters in the New Administrative Capital to finalise preparations for Egypt?s hosting of the 21st APUA General Conference in Cairo from 26...

D?Tigress secure their fifth straight AfroBasket title, extending their dominance in Africa and proving once again they are the gold standard in women?s basketball. ......

At least four people were killed after a civil protection...

Egypt?s Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Water Resources met on Tuesday with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to discuss bilateral water cooperation, ongoing development projects, and shared concerns over Nile River governance, the Ministry of Water Resources...

Colombian mercenaries join the Rapid Support Forces in the war in Sudan. Fighters from the South American nation reportedly spotted inside Darfur?s famine-stricken Zam zam refugee camp now the epicentre of the hunger crisis. ......

For producers, the main concern is not lost revenue or market share but instead damage to relationships they have worked hard to cultivate. From the beginning of this month, the US started imposing a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Tunisia. In a formal letter sent on July 7, Washington cited the North African state?s ?long-term and very persistent? trade surplus with the US as the reason for the levy. While Tunisia is not a major trading partner of the US, this decision highlights a broader shift in American trade policy, one that prioritises short-term bilateral balances over long-standing economic and security relationships. For smaller economies like Tunisia, the implications...

North Darfurs capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has accused Israel of carrying out a ?systematic genocide? in Gaza.

Download logo As day breaks at the United Nations base in Wau, dozens of peacekeepers are already bustling about, preparing for an important patrol to remote Deim Zubeir in the north-western corner of South Sudan. Their mission is to assess the security and humanitarian situation in an area plagued by severe food shortages, a lack of access to clean water, healthcare and education, exacerbated by an influx of thousands of refugees and returnees fleeing the conflict in Sudan. Having made this journey many times, the civilian and uniformed peacekeepers know there will be many challenges. The first obstacle is the heavily damaged roads, with the convoy...

Download logo As the global energy landscape shifts toward cleaner fuel sources, natural gas is taking center stage in Africarsquo;s energy transition, with international collaboration playing a key role in unlocking the continentrsquo;s vast gas potential. Africa holds approximately 6% of the worldrsquo;s natural gas reserves and is expected to contribute significantly to the global LNG supply by 2030, particularly through projects in Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Mauritania. With global LNG demand forecast to rise at a CAGR of 1.5% through 2030, Africa is strategically positioned to meet this demand ndash;...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese...

Somalia's disaster agency (SoDMA), has raised urgent concerns over a worsening humanitarian crisis fueled by aid cuts and rising conflict. ......

Bosaso -- Authorities in Somalia's Puntland state agreed to release a Comoros-flagged cargo vessel carrying weapons following a visit by Turkish Ambassador to Somalia Alper Akta#x15F;, regional officials said Monday. ......

Janaay Cabdalle -- Somali forces in the...

Life amp; Style | 34 seconds ago By Femi Fani-Kayode #8220;I attended a Federal Government College in a place called Sagamu in Nigeria. It was a like a prison. It was like #8216;Lord of the Flies#8217; where the students were in control of everything and we operated a socialist system. There were thirty of us in one room. They made us cut grass with cutlasses because nobody else would do it. We also washed...

Download logo ldquo;Our lives have turned from bad to better.rdquo; Alimu Robert Godfrey is one of 107 young people, including 35 women, benefiting from an initiative to improve opportunities to find jobs and build businesses as well as prevent their involvement in conflict across South Sudan. He learned new skills in plumbing during a vocational training in Torit, under the Community Violence Reduction Project (CVRP) supported by the United Nations...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe on Monday to discuss Egypt#8217;s #8220;existential#8221; concerns over its water security and ways to boost bilateral ties, the Egyptian foreign ministry said. Egypt#8217;s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Sewilam, also attended the high-level...

Sudanese women who fled el-Fasher say Rapid Support Forces fighters killed and raped people during their escape.

A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.