•Health care workers Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent’s top health agency. In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, a deadly disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids that causes haemorrhagic feve...
•A general view of the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium, the venue where the opening ceremony took place The 2026 Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympics ever to be held on African soil, opened yesterday in the Senegalese capital, marking an historic moment for the continent. Signs proclaiming “Africa welcomes, Dakar celebrates” are omnipresent across D...
•Health workers in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Africa’s latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said today. According to the DRC’s figures, 10,060 people have been infected and 4,887 have died since the virus was first de...
•World Map by Equal Earth The UN General Assembly voted yesterday to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries while the U...
•A Tobacco smoker New analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that despite significant global decline, Tobacco-leaf production has continued to rise in Africa, with concerns over the health, economic, environmental and sustainable development implications of the trend. The analysis showed that global tobacco-leaf productio...
Two Nigerian brothers, Davis and Emmanuel Eban, have taken their education technology initiative, Edugene, a step closer to the international genomic medicine community after the platform was admitted into the European Genomic Medicine Consortium (EGMEDC). The milestone was announced at the CRISPRMED26 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Apr...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the model of democracy practised across much of Africa, saying it lacks African context and content and has created a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Obasanjo said the Western liberal democracy inherited by many African countries was not designed around the continent’s realitie...
•Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is now driving 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more sophisticated and increasingly difficult to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. The report warns that the continent’s rapid digital transformation, marked by more...
Chad announced today it planned to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying its effectiveness was “limited and uneven” with a focus on Africa. It follows Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who in September jointly announced they were pulling out of the ICC, which prosecutes individuals for war crimes and crimes against humanity,...
•Members of the Zulu regiment known as the ‘Amabutho’ chant slogans as they march during a demonstration by the “March and March” movement in Durban, South Africa on June 30, 2026 Nigeria and Ghana have agreed to collaborate and strategise to prevent crises from escalating in Africa following recent Afrophobic protests and incidents targeting ...
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