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Congo Is Receiving 70,000 Doses of a Vaccine Licensed Against the Wrong Ebola
The Democratic Republic of Congo is receiving 70,000 doses of Ervebo, licensed against the Zaire strain of Ebola. The outbreak…
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Panda, Samurai, Sukuk and a Food Swap, Nairobi Shops Every Debt Market at Once
Kenya has published a 5.4 billion dollar external financing plan spanning Eurobond, Samurai, panda, sukuk and a debt-for-food swap. It…
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Ethiopia’s Bondholders Took a 12 Per Cent Haircut and Kept an Option on the Next Loan
Ethiopia's official creditors approved its one billion dollar Eurobond restructuring on 21 August, then objected to the clause inside it.…
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Kenya Airways Earns One Dollar Fifty a Seat and Fuel Just Took 72 Per Cent More
Kenya Airways says fuel costs rose 72 per cent in the first half of 2026 and now consume up to…
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Five People Refused to Leave the Plane in Monrovia and Were Flown to Malabo Instead
The first United States deportation flight under Liberia's third-country agreement landed on 20 August. Five people refused to disembark, were…
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Ethiopia Is Unwinding the Pretoria Deal Through Paperwork Not Gunfire
Fighting flared around Alamata in southern Tigray in early August and stopped within a day. The more consequential move came…
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Kenya Counts Its Dead in Russia’s War and Chooses Amnesty Over Prosecution
Kenya says 289 of its citizens were recruited into the Russian military and 69 are dead or missing. Enlisting abroad…
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Congo’s Ebola Response Is Failing at the Payroll Not the Laboratory
Congo's Ebola outbreak has become the second largest ever recorded and the fastest on record. The health workers running the…
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Africa Holds the Red Sea Chokepoint and Riyadh Holds the Command
Djibouti, Egypt, Somalia and the Comoros are founding members of a new Saudi-led maritime coalition guarding the Bab al-Mandab. The…
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Tshisekedi’s Third-Term Signals Deepen Congo’s Constitutional Tension
Tshisekedi's openness to a third term shows how prolonged conflict reshapes constitutional limits before any law changes. In the DRC,…
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Xenophobic Violence Pushes South Africa Into a Continental Reckoning
Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa has hardened into a continental diplomatic crisis. It exposes a country that draws value from…
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Drone Strikes Expose the Fragility of Sudan’s Remaining State Infrastructure
Renewed drone strikes on Khartoum's airport show Sudan's war has become a contest over the systems that let a state…
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Ghana’s Economic Recovery Faces a Cocoa-Sector Reality Check
Ghana's Fitch upgrade proves the balance sheet can heal before the supply chain does. Unpaid cocoa farmers and a debt-strained…
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Somalia’s Hunger Crisis Nears a July Funding Cliff
The WFP's July funding deadline turns Somalia's chronic hunger emergency into an acute test of whether an aid architecture built…
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South Africa’s Institutions Face Mounting Pressure Ahead of November Elections
South Africa's GNU is governing under coalition conditions for the first time in 30 years. The country's institutions are holding,…
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Zambia’s RightsCon Cancellation Reveals Where Digital Sovereignty Is Actually Decided
Zambia's cancellation of the RightsCon conference under geopolitical pressure exposes a quieter form of digital sovereignty than data centres and…
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Sahel Security Is Breaking Where Power Should Hold
Militant advances in Mali and Russian-linked force withdrawals reveal how external security models fail to convert presence into lasting territorial…
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Airtel Africa Delays Airtel Money IPO as Market Volatility Pressures African Listings
Airtel Africa's delay of the Airtel Money IPO reveals how African fintech growth stories remain structurally dependent on global capital…
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OPEC Output Signals Struggle to Offset Structural Strain in Global Oil Markets
OPEC+'s production increase signals mask a deeper problem: structural constraints are outpacing coordination capacity, with severe downstream consequences for Africa.
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African Political Systems Expand Participation While Tightening Control Beneath the Surface
More Africans are voting than ever before. The systems governing what those votes can change are getting more sophisticated, and…
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Sanctions Have Reached Into the Past to Shape the Future of Congo’s Conflict Economy
The sanctioning of former president Kabila exposes how Congo's mineral wealth and conflict are entangled in global supply chains demanding…
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Nigeria’s Fiscal Dispute Is No Longer About Accounting, It Is About Control of the Narrative That Defines Credibility
Nigeria's NNPC-FAAC revenue dispute is no longer about accounting, it is about who controls the fiscal narrative that determines Nigeria's…
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Wars Are Won Where They Are Supplied. Africa Holds the Supply.
Western arsenals are depleting faster than they can be refilled, and the tungsten and tantalum that refill them route disproportionately…
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Nigeria Coup Plot Moves to Court as Treason Charges Test the Limits of Due Process
A Nigerian treason trial carries two weights at once: what the accused did, and what the state intends by prosecuting…
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Diezani Alison-Madueke Denies Bribery Before London Jury as Nigeria’s Oil Era Goes on Trial
Diezani Alison-Madueke denies bribery in a London court, but her trial exposes how Nigeria's petro-state years operated, and why the…
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Madagascar crisis deepens as Rajoelina fires government
Madagascar's Gen Z uprising forced Rajoelina to dissolve his cabinet, but the blackout that lit the fuse was a governance…
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Africa’s Creative Pulse Meets Hard Economics
Burna Boy fills arenas and Nollywood out-produces Hollywood, yet Africa keeps the smallest share of the value its culture generates.…
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Africa Is Often Told to Leapfrog. But Leaping Without a Landing Plan Becomes a Stumble.
Africa's innovation story in 2025 is about systems not gadgets, the regulatory rails, payment infrastructure, and compute access that determine…
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Africa’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is Real. Who Owns It Is the Question That Matters.
Africa stands at a genuine energy inflection point. The question is not whether renewable energy arrives, it already is. The…
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At PTML Port, Nigeria’s Customs B’Odogwu System Hits Its First Real Test
Nigeria's B'Odogwu customs platform at PTML port represents the most concrete test of whether digital systems can displace the discretionary…