The semi-final line-up for the TotalEnergies CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 has been confirmed after a dramatic day of quarter-final action on Sunday. Hosts Morocco will face Senegal in a heavyweight last-four tie, while Egypt will meet Tanzania as the race for the continental title enters its decisive stage. All four semi-finalists…
Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva joined African leaders, policymakers, diplomats and development partners in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, for the Africa Liberation Day celebration that kicked off the 2026 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Monday, May 25. Themed “Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve Agenda 2063,” the…
Liberia is set to host a major continental public health initiative this week as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention partners with regional laboratory and health institutions for the 11th CelebrateLAB® West Africa Conference in Monrovia. The conference, scheduled for May 26-27 at the EJS Ministerial Complex, will bring together laboratory scientists, researchers,…
In response to xenophobic tensions, African ambassadors clarify they are postponing their own Africa Day celebrations for security reasons, not boycotting the main event in South Africa. African ambassadors to South Africa did not inform Pretoria, as reported, that they intended boycotting an Africa Day event in Moruleng, North West yesterday, to protest against xenophobic…
Geneva — World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading rapidly. He was speaking at the WHO executive board meeting in Geneva following the World Health Assembly, which ended on May 23, without the United States, which withdrew from the…
People living with a skin condition known as psoriatic disease in Africa are calling for greater inclusion in decisions about their treatment, amid growing concern over the high cost and limited access to care across the continent. Underscoring the scale of the issue, Ingvar Ágúst Ingvarsson, President of the International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA),…
South Africa has pledged an initial $5 million contribution to support a $319 million continental preparedness and response plan, as Africa mobilises to combat its second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. This, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who addressed a High-Level Meeting of African Ministers of Health on the Ebola outbreak that has swept through the…
Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is even born. Dictatorship used to be expensive. It needed informants, prisons, police files, propaganda and visible violence. Today, some of that work can be bought as…
Nairobi – The recent Africa Forward summit in Nairobi hosted jointly by Kenya and France gave women working in the technology sector the chance to discuss issues including the future of artificial intelligence in Africa. RFI spoke to Shikoh Gitau, CEO of tech lab Qhala, about working with France’s Mistral AI, and with female leaders…
Africa may have achieved political independence, but the continent’s biggest remaining challenge is economic liberation, according to the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). ALSO READ: Rwanda is where things get done, says AfCFTA’s Wamkele Mene Speaking at an international conference on Africa Day held in Kigali on Sunday, May 24,…
