The Pulse of a Continent
For a few years, the Gulf of Aden had almost become boring news — in the good sense. Naval patrols, better-armed merchant crews, and international pressure had pushed Somali piracy…
There is a particular kind of alarm in the way global health officials talk when they know they are losing ground. Not panic — health bureaucracies rarely allow themselves that…
The road out of Gao has become one of the deadliest stretches of highway in the Sahel. Twice in the space of a week, military convoys moving through northern Mali…
The children of King David Junior School in Kampala were on their way home from Sipi Falls, one of eastern Uganda’s most photographed natural landmarks, when their bus veered off…
Nearly thirty billion dinars. That is how much cash the Central Bank of Tunisia now estimates is circulating outside the country’s banking system — up roughly a quarter from the…
Burkina Faso EU diplomats expelled — that’s the blunt reality Ouagadougou delivered this week, giving two senior European Union officials just 72 hours to leave the country. In a decisive…
There is an easy narrative being told right now, which can be simplified in the following way: two of Africa’s richest individuals are partnering together, a $17 billion refinery will…
The Oyo schoolchildren rescue Nigeria has been celebrating hides a harder truth: children abducted the same day in Borno are still missing. On Friday, the presidency finally delivered the news…
In late June 2026, a simple calendar date turned into a life-or-death deadline for thousands of people living in South Africa. Anti-immigrant groups declared June 30 an unofficial “last day”…
OUAGADOUGOU — Burkina Faso’s military government has announced an immediate and complete break in diplomatic relations with France, marking one of the most decisive ruptures yet in the country’s ongoing…