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Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force
Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force
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Children in the crossfire: DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost
Children in the crossfire: DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost
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GHANA: Partey barred from Toronto — visa refusal adds new layer to Africa’s World Cup woes
GHANA: Partey barred from Toronto — visa refusal adds new layer to Africa’s World Cup woes
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NEWS

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

June 12, 2026
IT WAS THEATRE. Carefully scripted, meticulously timed, and breathtakingly brazen — a political magic trick performed on a nation that had waited years for a national airline to call its own. Courtroom testimony delivered in Abuja on Wednesday ha...
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
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Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy
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Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia
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World

Return to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: “Every single thing in the complex is a crisis”

Return to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: “Every single thing in the complex is a crisis”

June 13, 2026
NASSER Hospital in Khan Younis is the last major medical facility continuing to operate in the southern Gaza Strip. Over more than two and a half years, The New Humanitarian has reported on how the facility and its staff have struggled to contin...
Man pleads guilty to murder of former Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and husband
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I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances
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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
Appolonia: the story of an African kingdom that resisted the Atlantic slave trade

Appolonia: the story of an African kingdom that resisted the Atlantic slave trade

June 13, 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

Nigeria raised electricity prices to improve supply. Why it hasn’t worked

Nigeria raised electricity prices to improve supply. Why it hasn’t worked

June 13, 2026
NIGERIA’S electricity regulator triggered a big tariff shock in April 2024. It increased rates for some consumers by over 240%, citing the cost of producing and delivering power. The regulator classifies consumers into five bands, A through E, ba...
South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us
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African electricity systems are opening to private capital as utility dominance eases
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Lifestyle

Netflix’s Winnie Mandela documentary is a reckoning – with a life, a nation, and the machinery that tried to break them both

Netflix’s Winnie Mandela documentary is a reckoning – with a life, a nation, and the machinery that tried to break them both

June 13, 2026
THERE is a principle that should govern every society that has lived through fire: a nation that does not record its own history is condemned to forget it — or worse, to have it written for them by those with an interest in distortion. The Netflix d...
This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash
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The voice that carried Africa to a whole new world
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Thought Leadership

Thabo Mbeki tribute concert restores Soga to the African Renaissance

Thabo Mbeki tribute concert restores Soga to the African Renaissance

Lukhanyo NeerJune 13, 2026
FOR more than 150 years, South Africans have sung Tiyo Soga’s prayer as if it arrived from the heavens without an author. At funerals, in churches, at political gatherings and in moments of national longing, “Lizalis’ idinga lakho” — fulfil your pro...
TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.”
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South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous
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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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Man pleads guilty to murder of former Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and husband 1

Man pleads guilty to murder of former Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and husband

June 13, 2026
Forced labour in West African cybercrime academies: how fear traps young men 2

Forced labour in West African cybercrime academies: how fear traps young men

June 13, 2026
South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us 3

South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us

June 13, 2026
Netflix’s Winnie Mandela documentary is a reckoning – with a life, a nation, and the machinery that tried to break them both 4

Netflix’s Winnie Mandela documentary is a reckoning – with a life, a nation, and the machinery that tried to break them both

June 13, 2026
Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy 5

Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy

June 13, 2026
Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force 1

Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force

June 13, 2026
Children in the crossfire: DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost 2

Children in the crossfire: DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost

June 13, 2026
GHANA: Partey barred from Toronto — visa refusal adds new layer to Africa’s World Cup woes 3

GHANA: Partey barred from Toronto — visa refusal adds new layer to Africa’s World Cup woes

June 13, 2026
Nigeria raised electricity prices to improve supply. Why it hasn’t worked 4

Nigeria raised electricity prices to improve supply. Why it hasn’t worked

June 13, 2026
South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us 5

South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us

June 13, 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

Forced labour in West African cybercrime academies: how fear traps young men
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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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