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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
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Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout
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
SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide
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NEWS

Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa

Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa

June 10, 2026
When FIFA awarded the 2026 World Cup to a tri-nation consortium of the United States, Canada and Mexico, the governing body spoke rapturously of a tournament that would be the biggest, most inclusive and most spectacular in football's history. A rec...
“FAIR TRIAL IMPOSSIBLE”: Uganda’s prominent detainee fights to stop trial and gain freedom
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Five years on the run, one morning at Kotoka: the long arm of the law finally reaches Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu
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Ex-Kenya’s chief justice emerges as the green conscience in the battle for Nairobi’s last wild heart
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Ruto casts Africa as the century’s prize, with Kenya selling itself as the gateway
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World

A KNIFE IN THE NECK OF BRITAIN: How one attack in Belfast ignited the UK’s most explosive immigration crisis in years

A KNIFE IN THE NECK OF BRITAIN: How one attack in Belfast ignited the UK’s most explosive immigration crisis in years

June 11, 2026
IT began with a kitchen knife, a dark street in north Belfast, and a man left fighting for his life. It ended — at least for the time being — with cities across the United Kingdom ablaze with rage, immigrant families fleeing burning homes, and the g...
US/Israel-Iran War: Ceasefire remains elusive as it rains missiles, drone strikes
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The market moves before Trump posts
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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
Internet access is unequal in South Africa’s economic powerhouse: survey shows race and income mark the digital divide

Internet access is unequal in South Africa’s economic powerhouse: survey shows race and income mark the digital divide

June 9, 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

Reviving the heart of African literature

Reviving the heart of African literature

June 9, 2026
THE afternoon light settles over the distant hills with an unhurried grace, offering Adachukwu Onwudiwe a relaxing view from her home in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria. Growing up with a deep love for books and quiet reflection, Onwudiwe describes hers...
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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God bless the newly loaded: Zimbabwe’s wedding of the century, where Boyz II Men sang and the dollar danced
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Thought Leadership

South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous

South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous

LUKE SINWELL; TERRI MAGGOTT, and TREVOR NGWANEJune 11, 2026
ANTI-MIGRANT campaigns in South Africa are increasingly being framed as acts of community protection. Protesters present their efforts as a response to community concerns about crime, unemployment and failing public services. Leaders of these cam...
Anti‑foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it
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“We expect foreign nationals to respect our laws. We therefore need to respect them ourselves.”
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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
This engineer helped shape Kenya’s Renewable Energy story

This engineer helped shape Kenya’s Renewable Energy story

June 9, 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
Popular
Latest
Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100 1

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 2

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 3

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 4

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

June 9, 2026
Community trust and faster testing drive DRC response as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to Uganda, WHO says 5

Community trust and faster testing drive DRC response as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to Uganda, WHO says

June 10, 2026
Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia 1

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

June 11, 2026
Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout 2

Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout

June 11, 2026
SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide 3

SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide

June 11, 2026
African electricity systems are opening to private capital as utility dominance eases 4

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

June 11, 2026
South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous 5

South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous

June 11, 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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