Analysis - Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria.

Malawi's 2026 tobacco marketing season has opened under a cloud of imbalance, with official figures exposing a widening gap between supply and buyer demand that threatens to crush prices and farmer ...

MONUSCO, the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, has hailed progress after Kinshasa and rival M23 rebels agreed to ease humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, following ...

"This march is a declaration that no one is illegal and that our future is bound together as one human race" More than 150 people gathered at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, on ...

Every day in Malawi, nine women die from a disease that is largely preventable and treatable if caught early. By the end of the year, that number will add up to about 3,340 lives lost--mothers, ...

The Botswana National Front (BNF) marked its 60th anniversary in style on Saturday night, with President Advocate Duma Boko using the gala dinner to deliver a candid and forward-looking address ...

But residents say they are being charged R235 a month for refuse collection they never receive. Municipal refuse trucks have been grounded by the Department of Labour over safety concerns. The acting ...

South Africans are being told that providing a new HIV prevention tool (lenacapavir) to just about 456,000 people is a victory. It is not. In a country that still records hundreds of new infections ...

In March 2026, tensions escalated along the Guinea-Liberia border, particularly in Lofa County near the Makona River. Guinean soldiers reportedly crossed into Liberian territory, removed national ...

A stark warning from the World Bank has laid bare a growing crisis across Africa: economies are simply not expanding fast enough to create jobs for millions of young people entering the workforce each ...

President William Ruto has attributed Kenya's status as a middle-income country and its high infrastructure demand as the ...