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20 small coffins: Uganda bans school trips after bus horror kills 21 on Kapchorwa’s killer hill
20 small coffins: Uganda bans school trips after bus horror kills 21 on Kapchorwa’s killer hill
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Nigerian socialite’s vault empties: how Aisha Achimugu lost N8.9 billion fortune to the state
Nigerian socialite’s vault empties: how Aisha Achimugu lost N8.9 billion fortune to the state
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‘If I had one more chance, I would have told her to come home’
‘If I had one more chance, I would have told her to come home’
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NEWS

Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

July 18, 2026
A Soweto man accused of masterminding a sprawling international sextortion and money-laundering syndicate appeared in the Protea Glen Magistrate's Court this week, a day after Hawks commercial crime investigators cornered him in Orlando West, in an ...
Rwanda buys the world’s biggest stage: inside Kigali’s £20m Aston Villa gambit
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NIGERIA: Ex Attorney General forfeits 48 multibillion-naira properties to the state
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How the R10.4bn Hilux roll-out signals renewed global confidence in South Africa
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Ten Ethiopian migrants feared drowned as canoe capsizes on Zambezi River in desperate bid to reach Botswana
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World

Trump is rehashing old claims the 2020 election was stolen. His real aim: sowing doubt in the midterms

Trump is rehashing old claims the 2020 election was stolen. His real aim: sowing doubt in the midterms

July 18, 2026
US President Donald Trump has used a rare nationwide prime-time address to again claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen, US voting machines cannot be trusted, and a “deep state” conspiracy has covered it all up. However, the declassified...
Israel and Lebanon have a long history of failed ceasefires – will this time be any different?
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Cuba’s future remains in limbo while Trump’s unpredictable foreign policy offers no clear path forward
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BRICS NEWS

Mashatile in Beijing: South Africa seeks value‑chain deals, mineral beneficiation and regional hubs

Mashatile in Beijing: South Africa seeks value‑chain deals, mineral beneficiation and regional hubs

June 23, 2026
SOUTH Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile used the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on 22 June 2026 to launch a concentrated bid for South Africa to move from commodity supplier to industrial partner - pitching the country as a ...
Beijing bonds: Xi and Putin deepen the BRICS axis as the multipolar order takes shape
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Ethiopia’s BRICS dividend: Addis Ababa charts a new course in the architecture of global power
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Racism at the World Cup is an ugly reality. How to understand where it comes from

Racism at the World Cup is an ugly reality. How to understand where it comes from

July 18, 2026
LITERATURE
Ulysses in isiZulu: why an African translation of the classic Irish novel matters in today’s world

Ulysses in isiZulu: why an African translation of the classic Irish novel matters in today’s world

July 3, 2026
MOTORING
When lightning learns manners: Audi’s R4.9-million electric flex lands in Mzansi

When lightning learns manners: Audi’s R4.9-million electric flex lands in Mzansi

July 15, 2026
MOTORINGNEWS
Beyond the assembly line: Inside Ford SA’s quiet century-long promise to South Africa

Beyond the assembly line: Inside Ford SA’s quiet century-long promise to South Africa

July 8, 2026

Sports

North Africa’s World Cup teams offered lessons in what works – and what doesn’t

North Africa’s World Cup teams offered lessons in what works – and what doesn’t

July 16, 2026
THERE was a dramatic increase in the number of countries able to qualify for the final stages of the 2026 men’s football World Cup. Of the 48 teams to qualify, the global football body FIFA decided that nine would be African countries. This has func...
Another record. Another reckoning. Africa’s track royalty refuses to read the script
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Africa’s last Lion falls to a French side it basically raised
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Business

Training young people for jobs: insights from 9 African countries on what’s missing

Training young people for jobs: insights from 9 African countries on what’s missing

July 15, 2026
AFRICA’S young population is often described as a demographic dividend: a potential economic advantage if young people can gain the skills and jobs needed to contribute productively. But for many young people, that promise is slipping away. They lea...
“Africa possesses roughly 30 percent of global critical mineral reserves, yet captures less than five percent of the associated value added”
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World Bank blog analysis: Fast payment systems could slash the cost of sending money home
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Lifestyle

Issakaba: what a 1999 Nollywood classic reveals about Nigeria’s security crisis today

Issakaba: what a 1999 Nollywood classic reveals about Nigeria’s security crisis today

July 18, 2026
NIGERIA is grappling with banditry, kidnapping and insurgency amid renewed debates over community policing and the creation of state police. A Nollywood classic released more than 25 years ago remains strikingly relevant today. Released in 1999, ...
How Sierra Leone’s traditional textiles are weaving a modern fashion economy
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Young Gambian artist giving traditional printmaking new life
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Thought Leadership

Nigeria’s reckoning: How the law finally caught up with the untouchables

Nigeria’s reckoning: How the law finally caught up with the untouchables

JOVIAL RANTAOJuly 18, 2026
FOR a generation, the calculus of grand corruption in Nigeria was brutally simple: capture a position of trust, loot what the office affords, and rely on the near-total impunity that has historically shielded the politically connected from consequen...
Burundi and Mali regimes use a common tactic to stay in power: blame an external enemy
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Tanzania’s foreign policy has changed. How it’s being shaped by domestic power struggles
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Features

EDUCATION
Black women academics in my study said their main allies were White men – what this reveals

Black women academics in my study said their main allies were White men – what this reveals

July 10, 2026
SUSTAINABILITY
Africa on the rise as birders’ paradise

Africa on the rise as birders’ paradise

July 16, 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
Mali’s junta suspends popular radio show

Mali’s junta suspends popular radio show

July 8, 2026
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Nigeria’s reckoning: How the law finally caught up with the untouchables

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Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

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Nigerian socialite’s vault empties: how Aisha Achimugu lost N8.9 billion fortune to the state

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Trump is rehashing old claims the 2020 election was stolen. His real aim: sowing doubt in the midterms 1

Trump is rehashing old claims the 2020 election was stolen. His real aim: sowing doubt in the midterms

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20 small coffins: Uganda bans school trips after bus horror kills 21 on Kapchorwa’s killer hill 2

20 small coffins: Uganda bans school trips after bus horror kills 21 on Kapchorwa’s killer hill

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Nigerian socialite’s vault empties: how Aisha Achimugu lost N8.9 billion fortune to the state 3

Nigerian socialite’s vault empties: how Aisha Achimugu lost N8.9 billion fortune to the state

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‘If I had one more chance, I would have told her to come home’ 4

‘If I had one more chance, I would have told her to come home’

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Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide 5

Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

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A force forged in the crucible of African development

A force forged in the crucible of African development

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

Health

Communities at the heart of the DRC response to the Ebola epidemic
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Technology

People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?
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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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