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The great aviation illusion: How Nigeria cabinet minister pulled a multimillion rand trick
The great aviation illusion: How Nigeria cabinet minister pulled a multimillion rand trick
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Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant
Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant
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Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA
Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA
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NEWS

Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia

Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia

June 11, 2026
HE missed the 2026 World Cup not because of form or fitness but because a visa line in Washington stood between him and football’s biggest stage. Instead of starting under stadium lights, Omar Abdulkadir Artan stepped off a plane at Aden Adde Intern...
Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout
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SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide
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Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa
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“FAIR TRIAL IMPOSSIBLE”: Uganda’s prominent detainee fights to stop trial and gain freedom
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World

The Price of Power: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and the reckoning that would not wait

The Price of Power: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and the reckoning that would not wait

June 12, 2026
HE built hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa. He funded vaccine programmes that saved millions of lives. He recast himself, in the decades after Microsoft, as the most consequential philanthropist of his generation. But on Wednesday, Bill Gates - with a...
US and Iran’s exchange of strikes shows how far diplomacy has changed
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Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free childcare center for city workers
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BRICS NEWS

Beijing bonds: Xi and Putin deepen the BRICS axis as the multipolar order takes shape

Beijing bonds: Xi and Putin deepen the BRICS axis as the multipolar order takes shape

May 28, 2026
IN a summit laden with symbolic and strategic weight, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping convened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, cementing what both leaders described as a relationship at an unprecedented ...
Ethiopia’s BRICS dividend: Addis Ababa charts a new course in the architecture of global power
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BRICS uses sport and screen to build a new cultural architecture
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Special Features

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
World Cup 2026: the real story of the resilient African migrants reshaping global football

World Cup 2026: the real story of the resilient African migrants reshaping global football

June 12, 2026
LITERATURE
Reviving the heart of African literature

Reviving the heart of African literature

June 9, 2026
MOTORING
SA Bakkie Brawl Heats Up: JMC Vigus crashes the party, Hilux, Ranger, Navara tremble!

SA Bakkie Brawl Heats Up: JMC Vigus crashes the party, Hilux, Ranger, Navara tremble!

April 17, 2026
MOTORINGNEWS
The ex-pie guy who could sell you a Rolls-Royce over the phone

The ex-pie guy who could sell you a Rolls-Royce over the phone

May 16, 2026

Sports

EXCLUSIVE: Ruud Gullit calls on Gianni Infantino to resign amid growing World Cup controversy

EXCLUSIVE: Ruud Gullit calls on Gianni Infantino to resign amid growing World Cup controversy

June 11, 2026
I have stayed quiet for a long time because I wanted to judge this World Cup on football matters. But the deeper we get into the preparations, the more it becomes clear that football is no longer the main story. For that reason, I believe Gianni Inf...
Kagisho Dikgacoi backs Bafana to shock hosts Mexico in World Cup opener
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What the tattoos of World Cup players say about their love, life and religious beliefs
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Business

African electricity systems are opening to private capital as utility dominance eases

African electricity systems are opening to private capital as utility dominance eases

June 11, 2026
AFRICAN electricity systems are shifting away from vertically integrated utility monopolies toward hybrid structures where private capital increasingly finances generation, storage, transmission, and distributed energy systems. This is changing h...
How a poultry loss led to a digital management tool
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African banks are outperforming global peers as the continent’s financial systems deepen
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Lifestyle

This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash

This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash

June 12, 2026
THE lights dim inside Alliance Française in Nairobi as the audience settles into their seats. On screen, a documentary's poster shows piles of discarded clothing, plastic, and household waste, telling a story that many people prefer not to see. As t...
The voice that carried Africa to a whole new world
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Daughter of the soil rules the world: Tyla makes history as only African to win at the 2026 American Music Awards – taking home two
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Thought Leadership

TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.”

TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.”

SAMIA SULUHU HASSANJune 12, 2026
GREETINGS from the snow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world.   Greetings from the great plains of the Serengeti, where the wildebeest migration rights one of nature's oldest and most magnificent stories....
South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous
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Anti‑foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it
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Features

EDUCATION
Ghana wants learner‑centred classrooms – but many teachers still favour old methods

Ghana wants learner‑centred classrooms – but many teachers still favour old methods

June 9, 2026
SUSTAINABILITY
Climate change is threatening sheep farmers in South Africa’s Drakensberg – how they’re adapting

Climate change is threatening sheep farmers in South Africa’s Drakensberg – how they’re adapting

June 12, 2026
HUMAN RIGHTS
In conversation with Funke Adeoye on detainees’ rights in Nigeria

In conversation with Funke Adeoye on detainees’ rights in Nigeria

March 27, 2026
MEDIA FREEDOM
Malian journalist detained over Pan-African forum remarks as press groups sound alarm

Malian journalist detained over Pan-African forum remarks as press groups sound alarm

June 11, 2026
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Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free childcare center for city workers 1

Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free childcare center for city workers

June 12, 2026
Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100 2

Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100

March 27, 2026
US/Israel-Iran War: Ceasefire remains elusive as it rains missiles, drone strikes 3

US/Israel-Iran War: Ceasefire remains elusive as it rains missiles, drone strikes

June 11, 2026
CHINA/NORTH KOREA: Xi courts Kim, but sidesteps nuclear threat as China chooses influence over pressure 4

CHINA/NORTH KOREA: Xi courts Kim, but sidesteps nuclear threat as China chooses influence over pressure

June 9, 2026
Inflation and immigration fears threaten to dampen Miami’s economic benefits from the World Cup 5

Inflation and immigration fears threaten to dampen Miami’s economic benefits from the World Cup

June 9, 2026
The great aviation illusion: How Nigeria cabinet minister pulled a multimillion rand trick 1

The great aviation illusion: How Nigeria cabinet minister pulled a multimillion rand trick

June 12, 2026
Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant 2

Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant

June 12, 2026
Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA 3

Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA

June 12, 2026
This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash 4

This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash

June 12, 2026
TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.” 5

TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.”

June 12, 2026

AUDA-NEPAD

A force forged in the crucible of African development

A force forged in the crucible of African development

March 27, 2026
IN the corridors of the , system, where ambition is plentiful but transformative action rare, Daphine Hazvibvi Muzawazi has become something of an in...

Health

The hunt for a new Ebola vaccine: two scientists explain the challenges
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Technology

Africa has the world’s greatest genetic diversity, yet it’s missing from research: we’re filling the gap
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Africities

China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners and residents
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MULTIMEDIA

Gallery: The Lion of Bamako: Tribute to Hameye Mahaman Cissé
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