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Nigerian opposition leader Peter Obi addresses the Spier Dialogue Event on "Policies for Growth in Africa" in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: X/@PeterObi
AfricaSouth Africa

Africa has no reason to remain poor, Peter Obi tells Cape Town forum

Cape Town - Nigerian opposition leader and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi told a gathering of ministers and policymakers in Cape Town...

South Africa's Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Narend Singh, pictured during the COP15 Zimbabwe Convention on Wetlands on 24 July 2025. Photo: IISD
AfricaEnvironment & Water

SA races to finalise biodiversity plan before COP17

Pretoria - South Africa has wrapped up a major national consultation process on biodiversity, with strong calls for communities, young people and traditional...

Eswatini's Health Minister Mduduzi Matsebula, who chairs the ECSA-HC Health Ministers Conference, commended Uganda's swift response to the Ebola Bundibugyo Disease outbreak on Friday.
AfricaHealth

ECSA-HC health ministers praise Uganda’s Ebola response

Arusha, Tanzania - Eswatini's Health Minister Mduduzi Matsebula has joined fellow health ministers from across the East, Central and Southern Africa region in...

Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi pictured with South African Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber of the Democratic Alliance during talks in Cape Town on immigration and Nigeria-South Africa relations. Photo: X/@PeterObi
AfricaDiplomacy

Former Nigerian presidential candidate meets SA ministers in Cape Town

Cape Town - Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has held talks with three South African cabinet...

AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Keabetswe Mene engages delegates at the Biashara Afrika 2026 forum in Lomé, Togo
AfricaDiplomacyTrade & Investment

Africa’s biggest trade forum wraps up in Togo

Lomé, Togo - The third edition of Biashara Afrika concluded in Lomé, Togo, on Wednesday 20 May 2026, after three days of high-level...

Discord has grown between Senegal's now-dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko (L) and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye (R) pictured during an 2025 event in Dakar. © Patrick Meinhardt, AFP
AfricaPolitics

Senegal president sacks prime minister Sonko

Dakar - Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye fired Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government on Friday, deepening a political crisis in...

Staff members from Botswana's Ministry of Environment and Tourism's Department of Corporate Services pictured after donating school uniforms and stationery to vulnerable children ahead of the 2026 academic year.
Africa

Botswana ministry staff buy uniforms for needy children

Gaborone - Staff members from Botswana's Ministry of Environment and Tourism have put their June 16 celebration funds to good use, pooling their...

Health workers conduct interviews as part of Ebola eradication efforts in the ​Democratic ​Republic ​of ​the Congo during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak. Credit: Gavi/2019/Frederique Tissandier.
AfricaHealth

WHO declares emergency over rare Ebola outbreak

A rare and deadly strain of Ebola with no licensed vaccine or treatment has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo and...