South Africa’s African Transformation Movement (ATM) has announced its intention to table a proposal before parliament and the constitutional review committee to rename South Africa as the Republic of Azania. According to the party, the move is a part of a broader project of national decolonisation. The proposal has sparked debate across political, public and…
August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d’état. While the event reshaped Mali’s domestic politics, it also marked the beginning of a broader wave of military takeovers that swept parts of Africa between 2020 and 2023. Soldiers have toppled governments in Niger, Burkina Faso (twice),…
Successful debt stabilization requires measures to strengthen public finances and institutions, alongside pro-growth structural reforms and a sound macroeconomic environment In the context of high global uncertainty, tighter global financial conditions, and rising borrowing costs, concerns about sub-Saharan Africa’s debt vulnerabilities are mounting. But the region is tackling this issue head-on and public debt ratios…
Dangote group is set to expand its $2.5 billion fertiliser plant located in Lagos, which will make Africa self-sufficient in fertiliser supplies and significantly reduce import costs. Aliko Dangote said on Friday that the planned production capacity would boost supply needs of the continent in the next 40 months. If the plan is successfully completed…
10 Dead as Kenya’s Saba Saba Protests Turn Violent Ten people have been killed during anti-government protests in Kenya, and 567 people have been arrested. There were reports of deaths in Kitengela, Ongata Rongai, Kangemi, Embu, and Ol Kalou. Video footage from Kitengela and Rongai shows police opening fire on unarmed protesters and violently…
Why is contact between law enforcement and the average citizen in Africa so frequently lethal? Kenyan teacher, activist, and social media campaigner Albert Ojwang is finally achieving in death precisely what he always wanted to do while he was alive–draw attention to the state of affairs in his country, in particular police highhandedness as an…
More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), on the town of Boulikessi. The same group launched an attack on the historic city of Timbuktu. The Malian…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the environment is being attacked on all fronts and called on the international community to urgently tackle the intersection of health and climate issues. Speaking at the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he emphasised the human impact of environmental devastation and climate change. And…
The figure reflects the data as of epidemiological week 25 of 2025, which underscores the disproportionate disease burden on three countries, even as overall cases show a downward trend The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, and Uganda account for over 84 per cent…
Whether or not Africa is ready for a new world order, it must prepare to take its place in it, President Paul Kagame has said. The Head of State was speaking on Friday, July 4, during a media engagement with journalists on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of Rwanda’s liberation. Reacting to the idea…
