Abuja -- An unknown number of girls were kidnapped by armed men who...

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Gunmen from a criminal gang kidnapped 25 people and killed a staff member in an early morning raid on a northwestern Nigerian girls' secondary school on Monday, police said. The attack comes more than a decade after 276 girls were abducted from Chibok in the restive northeastern Borno state and sparked international outcry that and rallied people around the #BringBackOurGirls global social media campaign. Since then, there has been a string of other abductions involving school children across northern parts of...

Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Hassan...

Paramilitaries accused of atrocities pledged to allow international aid and investigators into El Fasher, days after an airstrike hit a United Nations vehicle. ......

Rapper to give address on Tuesday after supporting Trump?s post condemning Nigerian government...

The expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) should not be seen as a setback for African nations but rather as an opportunity to strengthen local industries, upskill workforces and expand regional trade, experts have said. Agoa is a United States law that provides eligible sub-Saharan African countries with duty-free access to that market for more than 1 800 products. The Act expired in September, and there remains uncertainty over its renewal. But amid the punitive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, countries are considering measures to safeguard their trade markets. African markets can leverage their skills to develop their markets and also strengthen...

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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit dismissed four ministers, a governor, and a police chief, while appointing a vice president and chair of the Economic Cluster in his latest Cabinet reshuffle. In the first decree read on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), James Wani Igga was appointed president and chair of the Economic Cluster, succeeding...

The kidnapping echoed the abduction of the Chibok girls 11 years ago and came as U.S. officials pressed the country to address violence against Christians. ......

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, and African Export?Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their cooperation in promoting trade and investment flows across Arab and African countries. The MoU was signed in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 October 2025 by Eng. Yasser Alaki, Director of the Business Development Department at ICIEC, and Mr. Kofi Asumadu Addo, Director, Guarantees and Specialised Finance at Afreximbank who represented the Bankrsquo;s Executive Vice President,...

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Passé sous les radars médiatiques ces derniers mois, le Mali est revenu au c?ur de l'actualité suite à la pression croissante des djihadistes sur Bamako et sur la junte. Quel est l'état de la menace ? Risque-t-elle de s'étendre au Sahel ? Qui peut la contenir ? Quel est le projet des djihadistes du Jnim ? Parlons-en avec Djenabou Cissé, chercheuse spécialiste du Sahel à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Stéphane Ballong, chef du service Afrique de France 24, et Wassim Nasr, journaliste France 24, spécialiste des réseaux djihadistes.

Vingt-cinq écolières ont été enlevées par des hommes armés dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi dans l'État de Kebbi, dans le nord-ouest du Nigeria. Ce pays, qui est le plus peuplé d'Afrique, est miné par l'insécurité et les enlèvements contre rançons y sont fréquents.

Le Mali aurait décrété un service militaire obligatoire et une interdiction de territoire contre les ressortissants étrangers des pays occidentaux qui quitteraient le pays, annoncent de prétendus communiqués des autorités maliennes. Ce sont des faux documents, usurpant l'identité du gouvernement du Mali.

Health authorities isolate more than 100 contacts as deadly hemorrhagic virus detected near South Sudan border.

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Download logo His Majesty King Mohammed VI has sent a message of congratulations to the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, on his countryrsquo;s national day. In...

Sudan?s 19-month war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has entered its most dangerous phase yet. With el-Fasher falling to the ......

In Africa crypto news this week, Discovery Bank partners with crypto exchange Luno. This will allow users to trade directly on their banking app. In Nigeria, exchange startup Obiex has reportedly entered profitable territory after a bootstrapping and focus restructuring exercise. Meanwhile, in Ghana, GFX, a brokerage firm, is partnering with the Singaporean tokenization platform Libeara to enable the tokenization of government bonds. DISCOVER: 20+ Next Crypto to Explode in 2025 So, let?s look at these stories making continental headlines this week: South Africa Crypto News: Discovery Bank Partners with Luno Discovery Bank is set to become the first major lender in South Africa to enable its...

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) (https://ICIEC.IsDB.org), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, and African Export?Import Bank (Afreximbank) are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their cooperation in promoting trade and investment flows across Arab and African countries. The MoU was signed in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 October 2025 by Eng. Yasser Alaki, Director of the Business Development Department at ICIEC, and Mr. Kofi Asumadu Addo, Director, Guarantees and Specialised Finance at Afreximbank who represented the Bankrsquo;s Executive Vice...

Download logo It gives me pleasure, in my capacity as the African Union Champion for the dossier of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD), to announce the launch of the fifth edition of the African Union Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Awareness Week. The event will extend from November 17 to 23, 2025, under the theme: Rebuilding Lives After Conflict Through Reparative Justice, with Cairo hosting the main functions of this year's edition. Our African continent is encountering a multitude of intertwined security and developmental challenges. Those include internal...

Download logo The Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG) has included the country platform for the NWFE program and the Sharm El-Sheikh Guidebook for Just Financing in its recently issued report during the COP30 Climate Conference in Brazil. The report sets a roadmap to increase climate investments in developing countries to reach $1.3 trillion annually by 2035. The IHLEG issued a comprehensive report on the external financing required by 2035 for developing countries to support climate investment needs. This was done at the request of the COP29 and COP30 presidencies to establish a roadmap for increasing climate finance through realistic solutions that integrate...

Download logo The Energy Mines Directorate is holding a National Experts Meeting to finalize the review of the Draft Revised ECOWAS Mineral Development Policy and its Implementation Matrix (Revised EMDP, 2024), in Lagos, Nigeria from the 10th to 15th of November 2025. The meeting brings together senior officers from ECOWAS Members Statesrsquo; Ministries...

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. troops trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly ?completely blind?, following what a former senior...

Download logo The ECOWAS Commission, through its Department of Economic Affairs and Agriculture, has finalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Nouakchott on 14 November 2025. The agreement aims to support the harmonisation and enhancement of statistical systems across West and...

The boom contrasts sharply with Nigeria?s housing deficit, which is estimated at over 20m units, and the extreme poverty affecting nearly a third of the population ......

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All the updates as DR Congo beat Nigeria in the CAF playoffs final for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.