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Nigeria could attract at least twice its current level of energy investment within five years as the...
Nigeria could attract at least twice its current level of energy investment within five years as the...
Kenyan President William Ruto says he has ordered Tata Chemicals to end its operations in the...
Nvidia has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, in a...
Ten African countries have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation when disease outbreaks and...
African countries have committed to educating, employing and retaining three million additional...
Africa has spent years building an ambitious continental free trade system. The bigger challenge now...
South Africa’s private sector recorded another month of modest growth in August, supported by an...
Nigerians living in the United Kingdom will have access to special passport services in four cities...
Guinea-Bissau has voted to approve constitutional changes that significantly strengthen presidential...
Kenyan President William Ruto says he has ordered Tata Chemicals to end its operations in the country, escalating a long-running dispute over the company’s soda ash business at Lake Magadi. Speaking...
A Nigerian-British taxi driver has been sentenced to six years in prison after falling asleep at the wheel and killing a man in Surrey, England. Kolawole Erunkulu, 45, from Bexleyheath, pleaded guilty...
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed more than 3,000 people, making it the largest and deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country’s history. Government figures...
Uber is shutting down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria, ending a 12-year presence in Africa’s most populous country. The company confirmed that its services would cease on 2 September 2026...
Nigeria’s economy grew by 4.43% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, its strongest quarterly growth rate in more than two years, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. The...
Egypt will apply a US$15 charge to entry and transit visas from 1 January 2027, under a government decision that also covers visas and some consular services provided by Egyptian diplomatic missions...
Ten years ago, African leaders unveiled a passport that was meant to represent a more connected continent-one where Africans could travel, work and live more freely across national borders. The...
Africa is moving through a busy election year, with voters in several countries choosing presidents, lawmakers and other representatives. But the bigger story of 2026 is not simply about who wins or...
Libya’s rival institutions have signed an agreement aimed at holding presidential and parliamentary elections within two years, opening another attempt to end a political crisis that has divided the...
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has challenged Prime Minister Andy Burnham over how his government intends to pay for increased UK defence spending, bringing national security and the state of...
A Nigerian-British taxi driver has been sentenced to six years in prison after falling asleep at the wheel and killing a man in Surrey, England. Kolawole Erunkulu, 45, from Bexleyheath, pleaded guilty...
The UK remains a major destination for Nigerian students, but the immigration system surrounding study, work after graduation and eventual settlement is changing. In the year ending June 2026, the UK...
The UK Government still intends to make it harder for many migrants to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain, but one distinction matters: the proposed 10-year standard settlement route has not yet...
Nigerians living in the United Kingdom will have access to special passport services in four cities this September as the Nigeria Immigration Service moves to bring processing closer to applicants...
A Nigerian-British taxi driver has been sentenced to six years in prison after falling asleep at the wheel and killing a man in Surrey, England. Kolawole Erunkulu, 45, from Bexleyheath, pleaded guilty...
The UK remains a major destination for Nigerian students, but the immigration system surrounding study, work after graduation and eventual settlement is changing. In the year ending June 2026, the UK...
The Cape Town Regional Court has postponed a decision on whether former Miss South Africa contestant Chidimma Adetshina should be detained pending possible deportation, extending her legal battle with...
Tiger Woods has been banned from driving for five years after reaching a plea agreement in an impaired-driving case linked to a rollover crash in Florida earlier this year. The 15-time major golf...
Nigeria has secured a major new financial commitment from the World Bank, tied to reforms and a six-year strategy that will shape borrowing and delivery until 2032. On Wednesday July 1, 2026, the...
Guinea-Bissau has voted to approve constitutional changes that significantly strengthen presidential powers, setting the stage for a major shift in the country’s political system ahead of elections...
Nigeria’s House of Representatives has released preliminary findings from its investigation into the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, uncovering a network of about 58...
Nigeria’s 2027 presidential contest is taking shape, with President Bola Tinubu seeking a second term and opposition heavyweights Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar preparing separate challenges. The race...
Nigeria could attract at least twice its current level of energy investment within five years as the country strengthens its relationship with the International Energy Agency, according to IEA...
Nvidia has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, in a major deal that would expand the chipmaker’s influence beyond computing hardware and deeper into the...
Africa has spent years building an ambitious continental free trade system. The bigger challenge now is making that system work for businesses trying to move goods, services and money across African...
South Africa’s private sector recorded another month of modest growth in August, supported by an increase in new orders and stronger business activity, according to a new survey released on Thursday...
Small businesses are part of everyday life across Africa. They run shops, farms, restaurants, transport services, technology companies and small factories. They provide livelihoods for millions of...
Cairo is preparing to welcome student athletes from across Africa for the 12th All Africa University Games, one of the continent’s biggest university sporting events. The Games, widely known as the...
Winning the Premier League is rarely about being brilliant every weekend. Across 38 matches, every contender will face injuries, difficult away trips, fixture congestion and afternoons when the...
Play Fela Kuti’s Water No Get Enemy and then Rema’s Calm Down. The songs come from different generations and sound very different, but together they tell part of a bigger story about the rise of West...
Ten African countries have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation when disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies threaten to spread across national borders. The Cross-Border...
African countries have committed to educating, employing and retaining three million additional health workers by 2035 as governments seek to address persistent staffing shortages across the...
The World Health Organization is pushing for wider access to effective and child-friendly treatment for sickle cell disease, as millions of families continue to face gaps in diagnosis, medicines and...
For most people living with HIV, modern treatment is highly effective. Antiretroviral medicines can suppress the virus to undetectable levels, protect the immune system and allow people to live long...
