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Africa: Statement By H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf Chairperson of the African Union Commission On the Occasion of Africa Day 2026 25 May 2026, Delivered By H.E. Ambassador Alhaji Sarjoh Bah, Phd AU Permanent Representative to the People’s Republic of China, Beijing | 25 May 2026

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His Excellency Martin Mpana, Ambassador of the Republic of Cameroon to China and Dean of the African Diplomatic Corps in China His Excellency Telesphore Irambona, Ambassador of the Republic of Burundi to China and Chairperson of African Union His Excellency Miao Deyu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of…

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Africa: Communiqué of the 1346th Meeting of the PSC Held On 15 May 2026, On Update On the Operationalization of the African Standby Force (Asf).

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COMMUNIQUÉ Adopted by the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 1346th meeting held on 15 May 2026, on the update on the operationalization of the African Standby Force (ASF): The Peace and Security Council, Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Recalling Decision [Assembly/AU/Dec.978 (XXXIX)] adopted…

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Africa: Arrival Statement – African Union Election Observation Mission to the 1 June 2026 Elections in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 26 May 2026

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The African Union (AU) announces the arrival in Ethiopia of the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) for the 1 June 2026 Elections in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The Mission is deployed at the invitation of the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The AUEOM is led by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta,…

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Africa: Communique of the 1345th PSC Meeting On Discussion On African Strategies for Combating Transnational Organized Crime (Toc) in Africa, Held On 6 May 2026

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COMMUNIQUÉ Adopted by the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) at its 1345th meeting held on 6 May 2026, a discussion on African strategies for combating transnational organized crime in Africa: The Peace and Security Council, Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Recalling all previous communiqués and…

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African Ambassadors Clarify Africa Day Plans Amid Rising Xenophobic Tensions

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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…

“We are real players” says Zoe Ramushu on building African film tech for the global industry

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Cape Town filmmaker and tech founder Zoe Ramushu is not interested in being treated as an exception. Cape Town filmmaker and tech founder Zoe Ramushu. Image supplied Fresh off her third consecutive shortlist nomination at the Global Production Awards during the Cannes Film Festival, Ramushu is building something much bigger than representation alone. Through her…

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Africa: AI and the New Machinery of African Repression

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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…

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Africa Has Seen This Before : Senegal’s Young Revolutionaries Now Face the Old African Curse

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Africa has seen this before. The revolutionary brothers who once shared prison cells, campaign stages, liberation trenches and political slogans eventually arrive at the same destination: the brutal crossroads of power. From Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe, to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar in South Sudan, to the dramatic fallout between Julius Malema…

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Africa: A Draft African Charter On ‘Family Values’ Is On the Cards – Why It’s Flawed and Dangerous

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A series of conferences held in Entebbe, Uganda, between 2023 and 2025 have resulted in a draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values. The meetings were organised by the Inter-parliamentary Network on African Sovereignty and Values, which organises continental conferences for African legislators and faith-based advocates. Supported by international conservative groups like Family Watch…

How African enterprises can leapfrog the AI infrastructure trap

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For years, African enterprises have faced a unique scissor gap: the urgent demand for digital transformation on one side, and the reality of unstable power grids, high cross-border bandwidth costs and a localised shortage of AI expertise on the other. In this context, pursuing outright ownership of underlying compute capacity risks trapping enterprises in a…