Turkey has renewed calls for an overhaul of the United Nations Security Council, including the removal of the veto system enjoyed by its five permanent members, as Africa continues to push for two permanent seats on the body.
Browsing: Power
About 74% of South Africa’s electricity is generated by coal-fired power stations owned by the state-owned electricity provider, Eskom.
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:
As efforts to expand energy access across Africa grow, experts and policymakers have called this week for greater coordination and investment to power food production with renewables, arguing the sector has been treated separately from energy policy and therefore faces barriers in going green.
United States businessman Joshua Kushner has blamed power struggles within global football for the outrage over FIFA’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup, admitting his firm “would not have got involved” if it had anticipated the backlash.
A senior delegation from S&P Global Energy will join African Mining Week 2026 in Cape Town from October 14–16, bringing market data, pricing expertise and commercial insights to conversations about the continent’s growing role in global mineral supply. The gathering arrives as demand for lithium, graphite, cobalt, copper, rare earth elements and other strategic materials…
Across the Horn of Africa, geopolitical interests of various countries continue to cause tensions and conflict as part of the growing competition for political influence over the region.
