Under The Baobab shines a hard‑look on the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) and its battle against Boko Haram and the wave of insecurity that still grips Nigeria and the wider West‑African region.
Author: Chukwu Godlove
UA.NEWS12 September 2026 08:59
Artificial intelligence and cyber capabilities are reshaping the global economy. Across the world, nations struggle to keep policies and legal frameworks current, but the gap is widest in countries lacking domestic AI infrastructure or deep technical expertise. This is particularly critical across Africa, where rapid digital growth collides with nascent regulatory capacities. The United States…
UA.NEWS10 September 2026 04:40
This week, the Federal Government of Somalia held a domestic security conference in Mogadishu, attended by senior government officials and representatives of the international community. The conference came at a particularly critical time, as Somalia faces a growing dilemma on multiple fronts—the gradual drawdown of the AU mission in the country, the expected closure of…
Di Presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Peter Obi don shout come out say dem no allow am enta communities wey e wan enta for Benue state.
Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma don return to im home kontri afta e spend more dan two years for Nigeria, wia e run for exile since 2024.
On June 30, 2026, an arbitrary deadline expired in South Africa that no law had set and no court would have enforced. A loose constellation of anti-migrant organizations had announced it: March and March, led by the Durban activist and former radio host Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma (no relation to the former president Jacob Zuma); Operation Dudula,…
The United Nations has just done something that may appear almost triconsider the map through which it represents itself. There are no armies involved, no borders being redrawn, no territory being transferred from one sovereign state to another. Yet beneath what looks like an obscure cartographic decision lies a question far larger than geography:
A yearslong push to change the default view of the Earth came to a vote at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, with 164 countries in favor of a new map, the United States against it and six abstentions.
