Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discusses Nile cooperation with African Union chairperson, regional security with Somali counterpart Hussien Elkabany and Rania Abushamala 03 October 2026•Update: 03 October 2026 CAIRO / ISTANBUL
Author: Chukwu Godlove
From cement plants in Ethiopia and Tanzania to refineries in Nigeria and Kenya, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has spent the last two decades building one of the most ambitious business empires that Africa has ever seen.
The student journalist turned civic mobiliser launched a voter registration drive on social media earlier this year, using snappy selfies infused with music and humour to target young people.
Ghana’s political parties and citizens need to confront a basic reality that is too often lost in the intensity of our political competition: Ghana is still a developing country. We have not yet built the industrial capacity, infrastructure, technological base, productive employment system and institutional strength associated with highly developed economies, and millions of Ghanaians…
As German troops crashed into Belgium in August 1914, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey gazed out of his office in Whitehall and concluded: “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time.”
The son of detained Zambian opposition politician Bishop Trevor Mwamba has told the BBC he is concerned for his father’s safety after the former Bishop of Botswana was detained along with 10 other opposition figures by authorities.
Following years of rising tensions, Algeria announced this month that it was severing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It gave the Emirati ambassador forty-eight hours to leave the country and closed its airspace to UAE-registered civilian and military aircraft, except for commercial flights to Algiers through the end of 2026.
Leaders from across Kenya’s political divide, both in the government and the opposition, have joined in mourning the death of Mwalimu Jackson Karua, the father of PLP party leader Martha Karua.
Police in South Africa say they have discovered another body in Ekurhuleni, to the east of Johannesburg, bringing the number of women found dead there in recent months to 10.
Africa does not have a shortage of digital strategies. It does not lack research papers, policy documents, technical reports, development frameworks, consultants, conferences, workshops, or pilot projects either. The continent has accumulated a substantial body of knowledge about digital transformation; yet, one uncomfortable question remains: How much of what Africa already knows actually becomes institutional…
